“Being allowed to choose between the political “left” and the political “right” provides the people with exactly as much power and freedom as allowing them to choose between death by hanging and death by firing squad.”
Larken Rose
“All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.”
As we all await the final results of electoral voting, and wonder what the year brings, one thing is certain: government will continue its’ relentless overreach into our lives, our livelihoods, and endless disdain for our constitution.
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Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. Matthew 12:25
“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is statistics.”
Josef Stalin
“It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.”
Ron Paul
“The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.”
Murray Rothbard
“The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.”
“The constant, obvious flattery, contrary to all evidence, of the people around the Tsar had brought him to the point that he no longer saw his contradictions, no longer conformed his actions and words to reality, logic, or even simple common sense, but was fully convinced that all his orders, however senseless, unjust, and inconsistent with each other, became sensible, just, and consistent with each other only because he gave them.”
Leo Tolstoy
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light.”
Plato
“Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.”
Mark Amend
“To what shall I compare this generation? They are children playing games in the marketplace, distracting one another. ‘We played the flute but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.’ John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by her works.”
“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.”
Edward Snowden
“You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.”
P. J. O’Rourke
“In the end, one or the other will triumph – a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.”
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
H. L. Mencken
“Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.”
Herbert Spencer
“The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can’t tolerate a libertarian community.”
David Boaz
“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
