"Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious……" — Robert Higgs
"Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking far more of your money, have the effrontery to violate your just rights whenever their convenience dictates..."
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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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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people…
— Russell Baker
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet…
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families.…
— Tom Brady
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
— Jo Brand
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
— Louisa May Alcott
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