The markets love Republicans not for what they do, but for what they don’t do. They don’t nationalize the health care system, they don’t erect new protectionist barriers. Arthur Laffer
Economist, July 1998 Reason
Men fear thought more than they fear anything else on earth… Bertrand …
Men fear thought more than they fear anything else on earth… Bertrand Russell
Liberty is N and has always been N the properly defined exercise …
Liberty is N and has always been N the properly defined exercise of freedom that does not violate the rights of others. Your right to liberty is not violated by restrictions on your freedom to rape and murder, because you have no such right in the first place. Randy E. Barnett
The most dangerous person on earth is the arrogant intellectual who lacks …
The most dangerous person on earth is the arrogant intellectual who lacks the humility necessary to see that society needs no masters and cannot be planned from the top down. Friedrich von Hayek
There’s no greater social program than a job, an opportunity. Dan …
There’s no greater social program than a job, an opportunity. Dan Quayle
Dan Quayle, David Frost Show, September 24, 1992
Political tags such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and …
Political tags such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. Robert A. Heinlein
When law and morality contradict one another, the citizen has the cruel …
When law and morality contradict one another, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his sense of morality or losing his respect for the law. Frederic Bastiat
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[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floatsto the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom. L. Neil Smith
These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to …
These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations — UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 29(3).
UN’s idea of ‘inalienable rights’
When under the pretext of fraternity the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices …
When under the pretext of fraternity the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating. Frederic Bastiat