"Without popular fear, no government would endure more……" — Robert Higgs
"Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours."
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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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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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If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather…
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure…
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They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for…
— William Blake
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To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills…
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