Robert Higgs Quotes
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.
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...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
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When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
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In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked…
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It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending…
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Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the…
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In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own…
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True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.
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Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.
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Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.
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The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short…
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H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer ashamed,…
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If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for…
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To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited…
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By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.
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In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is…
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The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it…
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No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out…
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Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more…
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Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy,…
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