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What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool.…

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One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs…
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has…
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and…
If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of…
A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That…
No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would…
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms
Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold.…
Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government…
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that…
With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry…
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his…

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