Harrison Dean

“Crackpots have a vote like everyone else...enough crackpots could vote a mayor into office.”
― Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War

“There are countless ways to die. The worst is to fade away without purpose.”
― Serena Butler

“Special interest politics is a simple game. A hundred people sit in a circle, each with his pocket full of pennies. A politician walks around the outside of the circle, taking a penny from each person. No one minds; who cares about a penny? When he has gotten all the way around the circle, the politician throws fifty cents down in front of one person, who is overjoyed at the unexpected windfall. The process is repeated, ending with a different person. After a hundred rounds everyone is a hundred cents poorer, fifty cents richer, and happy.”
― David D. Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

“Why is it so hard to explain the basis of state authority? The most likely
reason is that there is no explanation for political authority, because political authority is a fiction.”
― Michael Huemer, Justice Before the Law