Via the WSJ. Not only is liberty a system under which all government action is guided by principles, but it is an ideal that will not be preserved unless it is itself accepted as an overriding principle governing all particular…
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Today’s Quotes: Mencken, Williams, Sobran
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – H. L. Mencken If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell Every normal…
Today’s Quotes: C.S. Lewis, Milton Friedman, & Walter Williams
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The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is…
Today’s Quotes: Hazlitt, Williams, and Sobran
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“Ron Paul is not the answer to all our problems. He is simply the only candidate who’s convinced that neither is government.” – Eric Olsen “In Washington, D.C. it costs $7,000 in city fees to open a pushcart. In California,…
Today’s Quotes: Sobran, Rand, & Bastiat
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“Need” now means wanting someone else’s money. “Greed” means wanting to keep your own. “Compassion” is when a politician arranges the transfer. – Joseph Sobran The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.…
Today’s Quotes: Mencken & Friedman
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H. L. Mencken The real puzzle…
Today’s Quotes: Orwell, Pitt, & Clinton
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.…
Today’s Quotes: George Bernard Shaw, Ron Paul, & Booker T. Washington
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. – George…
Today’s Quotes: Ron Paul, Burroughs, & Sun Tzu
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and…
Today’s Quotes: Mencken, Williams, Plato, & More
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Rose Wilder Lane was one of the founders of the American libertarian movement (see here, here, & here). You may know here better as the first (and only surviving) child of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder. The people have…