Nick Szabo found these political views to help him with the creation Bitgold, the direct precursor to Bitcoin. This paper by Szabo is very important to think about in relation to political views needed for Bitcoin. It's a good reference to be used when politicians question what Bitcoin's motive is.
Ronald Reagan Quote:
"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.'"
"If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think what's at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation."
"Virtually every other revolution in history has just exchanged one set of rulers for another
set of rulers. Our revolution is the first to say the people are the masters, and government is their servant." -- State of the Union Address, 1987
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