Frédéric Bastiat

“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else”. –Frédéric Bastiat

Stephen Leacock

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so”. –Stephen Leacock

Ludwig von Mises

“Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man”. –Ludwig von Mises