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- There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
- Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes
- Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and…
- One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by…
- Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision…
- Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead…
- Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"
- One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those…
- The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You…
- We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for…
- No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When…
- If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when…
- Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to…
- People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of…
- Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved…
- The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it…
- If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child…
- 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.…
- Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
- If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is…
- The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
- There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.
- When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.
- It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people…
- Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once… — Michele Bachmann
- If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and… — Michele Bachmann
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton