The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both. — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Topographic conditions were the foundation of Greek democracy, just as those of a different kind gave rise to the Oriental despotisms of Egypt and… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“When the payoff for organizing violence at a large scale tumbles, the payoff from violence at a smaller scale is likely to jump. Violence… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“The more apparent it is that a system is nearing an end, the more reluctant people will be to adhere to its laws.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Faster than all but a few now imagine, microprocessing will subvert and destroy the nation-state, creating new forms of social organization in the process.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Other things being equal, the more widely dispersed key technologies are, the more widely dispersed power will be, and the smaller the optimum scale… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports. — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Cultures are not matters of taste but systems of adaptation to specific circumstances that may prove irrelevant or even counterproductive in other settings.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Market forces, not political majorities, will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways that public opinion will neither comprehend nor welcome.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“This tended to increase the size of societies because contests of violence more often than not were won by the larger group.” — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
“Governments will ultimately have little choice but to treat populations in territories they serve more like customers, and less in the easy that organized… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
