"No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last……" — Robert Higgs
"No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out the fire, even though this extinguishment provides no guarantee that the house will never catch fire again."
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Robert Higgs
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22 Quotes by Robert Higgs
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their…
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...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political…
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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…
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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…
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Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however,…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Well begun is half done.
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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