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Posted 3 days ago
It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself.
Justice Casey Percell
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Liberals love to say things like, “We’re just asking everyone to pay their
fair share.” But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The
difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and
being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal
Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your
assets and puts you behind bars if you don’t pay.
Thomas Sowell, Forbes, July 1994
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Posted 1 week ago

…the power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.

- Anthony Sutton, author of THE BEST ENEMY MONEY CAN BUY

Anthony Sutton, author of THE BEST ENEMY MONEY CAN BUY
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Canada spends less of its GDP on health care not because we have found a way to produce health care at lower unit cost but because we have found a way to limit the total supply of services made available… we ration the supply, denying treatment to some and making others wait.
Michael Walker, Executive Director of the Fraser Institute in Vancouver
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Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit….
 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident and defector
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Prohibition ended in 1933 because the nation’s most influential people, as well as the general public, acknowledged that it had failed. It had increased lawlessness and drinking and aggravated alcohol abuse.
Thomas M. Coffey, author of THE LONG THIRST-PROHIBITION IN AMERICA: 1920-1933
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Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in search after his own happiness. In vices, the very essence of crime-that is, the design to injure the person or property of another-is wanting.
Lysander Spooner
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What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own that what they possess in common with others
Aristotle
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…we are living in a sick Society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them.
William L. Comer
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…while men usually recognize criminal acts when they are committed by an individual in the name of his own interest, they often fail to recognize the very same acts for what they are when they are committed by some large gang in the name of “social justice” or the “common good.
Jarrett Wollstein, SOCIETY WITHOUT COERCION
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How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.
Walter Williams
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Men born under the yoke and then nourished and reared in slavery are content, without further effort, to live in their native circumstance, unaware of any other state or right, and considering as quite natural the condition into which they were born.
Etienne de la Boetie
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What is the meaning of a gold standard and a redeemable currency? It represents integrity. It insures the people’s control over the government’s use of the public purse. It is the best guarantee against the socialization of a nation. It enables a people to keep the government and banks in check. It prevents currency expansion from getting ever farther out of bounds until it becomes worthless. It tends to force standards of honesty on government and bank officials. It is the symbol of a free society and an honorable government. It is a necessary prerequisite to economic health. It is the first economic bulwark of free men.
Walter E. Spahr, Professor of Economics at New York University
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Posted 2 weeks ago
…if liberty is not the first principle of government, it will soon be no principle at all.
Andrew Klavan
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Posted 2 weeks ago
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche