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Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]

Samizdata quote of the day

I wouldn’t recommend alcohol and drugs to anyone. But they have always worked for me.

– Hunter S. Thompson

Samizdata quote of the day

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules, and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

– Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, September 13, 2001

Samizdata quote of the day

The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.

– Edward Gibbon

Samizdata quote of the day

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

– Sam Brown

Samizdata quote of the day

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule

– H.L. Mencken

Samizdata quote of the day

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury

– Sir Alex Fraser Tytler

Samizdata quote of the day

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

– Cicero

or

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a blog.

-What Cicero would have said if he was alive today

Samizdata slogan for the Christmas

Vini Vedi Visa

(I came I saw I shopped)

Samizdata quote of the day

Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

– from Hope by Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith

Samizdata quote of the day

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

– Edward R. Murrow

Samizdata slogan of the day:

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

– Mark Twain

Samizdata quote of the day

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

– Thomas Paine