The government is good at one thing…it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say “see if it weren’t for the government you wouldn’t be able to walk!”
Harry Browne
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Quoted for truth if not humor.
It sounds like Bastiat and Mencken are straight up your alley.
Solid Choke, yeah I like to visit quote websites so probably all my ‘original’ quotes are heavily influenced by great libertarian authors 
Want to hear a good joke?
This part had me reeling.
If there is no honor among thieves, why is it assumed government will honor it’s citizens?
If the government were truly efficient, it would cease to exist.
Why does the mafia come to mind right now…?
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
What is an exchange of opinion?
You go to the KGB with your opinion and, after torture, you return with theirs!
“If the government were truly efficient, it would cease to exist.”
Is this an ricarpe original of have you heard this elsewhere?
The irony about socialism is that the “utopia paradise” it strives for can only be achieved by every man working for himself.
I do not like this Uncle Sam,
I do not like his health care scam.
I do not like these dirty crooks,
or how they lie and cook the books.
I do not like when Congress steals,
I do not like their secret deals.
I do not like this speaker, Nan ,
I do not like this ‘YES WE CAN.’
I do not like this spending spree,
I’m smart, I know that nothing’s free.
I do not like their smug replies,
when I complain about their lies.
I do not like this kind of hope.
I do not like it, nope, nope, nope!
This aint quite a one liner, but I found the following anecdote from the Russian physicist Boris Ioffe about life in the Soviet Union while working with his supervisor Pomeranchuk amusing and edifying:
"In one particular aspect Pomeranchuk and I had something in common —
we had a common hobby, reading newspapers. At that time almost nobody
read newspapers regularly — there was no information there. All newspapers
were filled with articles that would start with words like “New successes in
the production of … are achieved at the factory … ” or “The worker Ivanov
(Petrov, etc.) in one shift produced …” In order to get information from
newspapers one had to be a professional in this business, and we — Chuk and
me — were. (From now on I will call him Chuk, as many did.) In the morning,
just after arriving at the ITEP, Chuk would come into my office and ask:
— “ Have you read Pravda today?”
— “ Yes,” I would reply.
— “And what did you pay attention to?”
— “ To a small article on the third page.”
— “Oh!” and Chuk would raise his forefinger.
— “And you?”
—“ Probably, the same, the report on the meeting of the Voronezh District
Party Committee.”
— “Yes.”
— “And what was interesting for you in this report?”
— “The greeting to the Politbureau.”
—“Oh!” And Chuk’s forefinger would go up up again. “What concretely?”
— “The ordering in which the names of the Politbureau members were
listed.”
We understood each other well. From this ordering one could obtain an
idea of who was going up or down in the Politbureau, and estimate political
trends."
And what is the alternative? Rule by a priesthood of illustrious, gifted persons such as yourself?
ama gi :“And what is the alternative? Rule by a priesthood of illustrious, gifted persons such as yourself?”
Boy, over 600 posts and you still don’t have a clue what this forum is about?? you should change your avatar
Why should I? Einstein wasn’t anarcho-capitalist either.
I reject the idea of an-cap because I reject the idea of setting up private-sector bureaucracies to replace the statist buraucracies. I don’t want a bunch of PDAs and private courts running around enforcing their own “private law” and I think the rule of law can exist only were there are formal legal codes universally agreed upon. I think that those legal codes ought to be derived by public referendum and court precedent set by juries of our peers. I don’t think democracy is a bad thing. I think democracy can coexist and thrive with free enterprise; just read de tocquville.
your last post is all well and good - but how does that jive with "And what is the alternative? Rule by a priesthood of illustrious, gifted persons such as yourself? as you know that is not what is advocated on this site
changing the avatar had to do with intelligence - just a jab. not personal, since i don’t know you
I always take exception to the description of democracy as “mob rule”. If not rule by mob, then rule by whom? Decisions are made by somebody, with or without a state.
Democracy is rule by the majority. I sure would hate to live in a Democracy, as whoever is in the majority rules the minority. The rights of the minority are not protected. If 51% voted to take 100% of your income, you are screwed. It is mob rule.
Contrast this with a Republic, where its not rule of the majority, but by the rule of law. And in the case of the Republic known as the United States of America, the rule of law is the Constitution. Not as great as AnCap, but much better than a Democracy, IMHO.