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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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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
— Michael Caine
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The water here in Cardiff is much easier than in London, so for us it is more relaxing paddling here. This race…
— Unknown Author
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I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.
— Fred Shero
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I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this…
— Rick Santorum
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In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that…
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To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a…
— Scott Stossel
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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…
— Robert Higgs
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Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No…
— Gerry Lopez
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Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!
— Gerry Lopez
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As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond…
— Alexander Skarsgard
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I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just…
— June Carter Cash
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the…
— Tabitha King
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