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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

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

Samizdata slogan of the day

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for
– Will Rogers

Samizdata quote of the day

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

Samizdata quote of the day

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

Samizdata quote of the day

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