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Congress is now discussing ethics of business. This is the first time for many congressmen – not business, but ethics.
– Jay Leno

Liberties depend on the silence of the law
– Hobbes (Leviathan)

Peace!
Stay off my back
Or I will attack
And you don’t want that!
– Snap (from I’ve got the Power)

…and Snap really was the lyrical Jessie James.

Real free trade would mean no subsidies, no trade taxes, no loan guarantees, and, for Heaven’s sake, no bailouts of foreign banks and governments.
– Lew Rockwell

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
– Alphonse Capone

Whatsoever, for any cause,
Seeketh to take or give
Power above or beyond the Laws,
Suffer it not to live!
Holy State or Holy King –
Or Holy People’s Will –
Have no truck with the senseless thing.
Order the guns and kill!
– Rudyard Kipling, extract from “MacDonough’s Song”

Sent in by a certain fellow Illuminatus with the following excellent remarks:

Doubtless a lot of you at the Samizdata gang know Kipling and perhaps particularly “MacDonough’s Song”, a sort of ancient libertarian cyberpunk chant from the dawn of the 20th century. If not I’ve attached the entire text, which is entirely consistent with our philosophy.

Quite! Back in Samizdata’s paleolithic era, there was a run of Kipling quotes both here and on Natalie Solent‘s blog.