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Robert Higgs has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
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Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others…
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If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover,…
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An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an…
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The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows…
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Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
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Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence…
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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -…
— James Monroe
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I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.
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Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.
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The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold…
— William Walker Atkinson
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