Choose liberty over power, persuasion over force. Find ways in which you can leave the world not only a better place, but a freer one as well, for life without liberty is both unthinkable and unlivable.
— Lawrence W. Reed
The Dysfunctional State with Michael Malice
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
— Thomas Pynchon
Above all, do not lie to yourself.
― Dostoevsky
Why the Scottish "Free Banking" Episode Doesn't Justify Fractional Reserves
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
- Julian Assange
Liberty is the mother, not the daughter, of order.
The greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility & desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts & its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
- A. Huxley
“You’re not getting an education, you’re getting an indoctrination”
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The benefits of economic freedom, and of civilization, are not just for the individual heroes or titans of industry responsible for great accomplishments. Civilization is appreciated and valued by all members of society, or at least all members of society who are not riven with envy at the good fortune of others. The advantages of civilization inure to the benefit of all humanity. As Marc Sidwell writes in his defense of civilization, “Every individual also understands what it is to be a human being. Works of beauty, ambition and mastery are not obscure. They can remind all of us of our common heroic potential.”
https://mises.org/mises-wire/civilization-depends-upon-economic-freedom
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
The system of plunder derives much of its support from individuals who do not subscribe to socialism but who say, 'We're paying for it, so we might as well get our share'.
- Leonard Read
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Tackling Robert Reich's First Two "Economic Myths"
Why should exchange be so universal among mankind? Fundamentally, because of the great variety in nature: the variety in man, and the diversity of location of natural resources. Every man has a different set of skills and aptitudes, and every plot of ground has its own unique features, its own distinctive resources. From this external natural fact of variety come exchanges; wheat in Kansas for iron in Minnesota; one man’s medical services for another’s playing of the violin. Specialization permits each man to develop his best skill, and allows each region to develop its own particular resources. If no one could exchange, if every man were forced to be completely self-sufficient, it is obvious that most of us would starve to death, and the rest would barely remain alive. Exchange is the lifeblood, not only of our economy, but of civilization itself.
- Murray Rothbard
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
- Ron Paul