Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-05-26 May 24, 2013It's ours to right the great wrong done, Ten thousand years ago -- The State, conceived in blood and hate, Remains our only foe! Oh, join us, brothers, join us, sisters, Victory is nigh! Come meet your fate, destroy the State, And raise black banners high!~ Murray N. RothbardDon't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.~ Arthur FreedReason obeys itself; and ignorance does whatever is dictated to it.~ Thomas Paine May 23, 2013[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.~ James MadisonThe champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!~ Ludwig von MisesWe've been asleep for about 50 years. Ever since the end of World War II we just steadily handed our future and our bank accounts and now our children, handed them all over to the federal government...~ Michael Moriarty May 22, 2013After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.~ Alexis de TocquevilleIt used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.~ Friedrich August von HayekGardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.~ Henry David Thoreau May 21, 2013You had me on (before) to talk about the new world order ... I talk about it all the time ... It's one world now ... The council (Council on foreign Relations) can find, nurture and begin to put people in the kinds of jobs this country needs. And that's going to be one of the major enterprises of the Council under me..~ Les CelbThat the CFR has been in control of the foreign policy of the United States for some time should now be beyond question.~ Richard HarwoodThe value of paper money is precisely the value of a politician's promise, as high or low as you put that; the value of gold is protected by the inability of politicians to manufacture it.~ Sir William Rees-Mogg May 20, 2013The creation of money exclusively as debt is the critical, destabilizing flaw in the American Economy.~ Theodore R. ThorenSocialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.~ Ludwig von MisesWhen all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all Power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print