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Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule
– H.L. Mencken
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
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
– Cicero
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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
Vini Vedi Visa
(I came I saw I shopped)
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
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
– Edward R. Murrow
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
– Mark Twain
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
It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for
– Will Rogers
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and thus clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary
– H.L. Mencken
The triumph of capitalism is living proof that you can’t beat the laws of supply and demand. Drug prohibition is proof that some people will try anyway.
– Unknown
Drug prohibition is another example of the triumph of hope over experience. Proof positive that stupidity, not hydrogen, is still the most abundant element in the universe.
– Unknown
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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