"It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want……" — Llewellyn Rockwell
"It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles. H.L. Mencken once said that the state doesn't just want to make you obey. It tries to make you want to obey. And that's one thing the government schools do very well."
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15 Quotes by Llewellyn Rockwell
Llewellyn Rockwell has 15 quotes on this site.
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Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.
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Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.
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Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.
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If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers…
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Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat…
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What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.
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We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case.…
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Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism…
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If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.
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I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.
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Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.
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