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January 2009

Walter Williams
The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.
Walter Williams (1936- ) is an American economist and college professor at George Mason University. He is also a syndicated columnist and libertarian author. An outspoken opponent to gun control, affirmative action and the minimum wage, he was drafted by Bruce Tinsley for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

More information on Walter Williams on www.wikipedia.org.

December 2008

Kakha Bendukidze
Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.
Kakha Bendukidze (1956- ) is a Georgian politician, a former Cabinet minister in charge of economic reforms and the current head of the State Chancellery. A self-made business mogul, oligarch and anarcho-capitalist, he became known as Georgia's Super Reformer.

More information on Kakha Bendukidze on www.wikipedia.org.

November 2008

Thomas Hodgskin
Man had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.
Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) was an english political economist, critic of capitalism, free-market anarchist and defender of free trade and early trade unions. He spent 15 years working for "The Economist" magazine, including several years as their editor-in-chief.

More information on Thomas Hodgskin on www.wikipedia.org.

October 2008

Margaret Thatcher
We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.
Margaret Hilda Baroness Thatcher (1925- ) is a British politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the first and only woman to date to hold either post.

More information on Margaret Thatcher on www.wikipedia.org.

September 2008

Frank Karsten
Democratie betekent het verlies van vrijheid in ruil voor de illusie van invloed.
Or translated into English.
Democracy implies the loss of liberty in exchange for the illusion of influence.
Frank Karsten (1964 - ) is a Dutch libertarian entrepreneur and the president of the More Freedom Foundation.

More information on Frank Karsten on www.meervrijheid.nl.

August 2008

Thomas Sowell
When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.
Thomas Sowell (1930- ) is an American economist, social commentator, and author of dozens of books. A Stanford scholar and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, he writes from an economically laissez-faire perspective.

More information on Thomas Sowell on www.wikipedia.org.

July 2008

Mark Steyn
Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone.
Mark Steyn (1959- ) is a self-described conservative polemicist whose opinions on politics, arts and culture are published in newspapers, magazines and online. He appears regularly on politically radio shows in Canada and the United States, and has authored five books, including "America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It."

More information on Mark Steyn on www.wikipedia.org.

June 2008

Vincent De Roeck
Westerse waarden zijn superieur. De multicultuur is dan ook een nivellering naar beneden.
Or translated into English.
Westers values are superior. The multicultural society is hence a downward spiral.
Vincent De Roeck (1985 - ) is a libertarian blogger, the editor-in-chief of Blueprint magazine, the Vice-President of the Liberal Flemish Students Organisation and the secretary of the Mises Youth Club.

More information on Vincent De Roeck on www.libertarian.be.

May 2008

Noam Chomsky
Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.
Noam Chomsky (1928- ) is an American linguist, naturalistic philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar and the cognitive revolution in psychology. Beginning with his critique of the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Chomsky has become more widely known for his media criticism and political activism, and for his criticism of the foreign policy of the United States and other governments.

More information on Noam Chomsky on www.wikipedia.org.

April 2008

Thomas Jefferson
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) was President of the United States, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States.

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March 2008

Daniel Hannan
Pactio Olisipiensis censenda est. The Treaty of Lisbon must be put to a vote.
Daniel Hannan (born 1 September 1971) is a British Conservative Member of the European Parliament for the South East of England.

More information on Daniel Hannan on www.wikipedia.org.

February 2008

Voltaire
Il est dangereux d'avoir raison quand le gouvernement a tort.
Or translated into English.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Fran̤ois-Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694 Р1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties.

More information on Voltaire on www.wikipedia.org.

January 2008

Omar Khayyam
Referme ton Coran. Pense et regarde librement le Ciel et la Terre.
Or translated into English.
Close your Quran. Think free and look as a freed man to the Sky and the Earth.
Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and Islam critic. Despite a strong Islamic training, he was undevout and had no sympathy with popular religion. He rejected the laws of Allah and supported the view that laws of nature explained all phenomena of observed life.

More information on Omar Khayyam on www.wikipedia.org.