"To continue on the road we Americans have……" — Robert Higgs
"To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government. We can have a free society or a welfare state. We cannot have both."
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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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