To debauch a people, debase their currency. - Curtis Yarvin

[A] free, prosperous democratic society is like a person who's so strong and healthy he can take a dose of arsenic every day—or at least, every four years—and still survive, sort of. The free, prosperous democratic society might be remarkably unfree and unprosperous compared to an undemocratic society that never took the arsenic, but so few of the latter survived the last two centuries that we have no basis for comparison.

For obvious reasons of human psychology, journalists […] are likely to favor political systems in which they themselves are more important and powerful.

[T]axation is not theft. Taxation is rent.