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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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Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness,…
— Thomas Merton
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It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in…
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Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic…
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Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
— Rosa Luxemburg
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Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
— Richard John Neuhaus
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There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to…
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The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in…
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But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as…
— Hjalmar Branting
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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…
— Robert Higgs
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Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.
— Charlie Munger
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Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.
— Noel Gallagher
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