There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. P.J. O’Rourke
1993 (1947- 2022)
The people have the right to bear arms for the defense of …
The people have the right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state…
Pennsylvania Declaration of 1776
Taxpayer: Someone who works for the government but doesn’t have to …
Taxpayer: Someone who works for the government but doesn’t have to take a civil service examination. Ronald Reagan
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem …
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth, namely a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Quoted in Reason Magazine, November 2000.
Polls of economists have found virtually unanimous agreement that declines in product …
Polls of economists have found virtually unanimous agreement that declines in product quantity and quality are the usual effects of price controls in general. Of course, there are not enough economists in the entire country for their votes to matter very much to politicians, who know that there are always more tenants than landlords and more people who do not understand economics than there are who do. Thomas Sowell
Basic Economics
This manslaughter must be stopped. You are losing; if you persist, it …
This manslaughter must be stopped. You are losing; if you persist, it will only result in greater bloodshed. Hitler is not a bad man…. Gandhi
He wrote to the Viceroy of India, as Germany’s panzer divisions were turning west, Allied armies were collapsing under the ferocious onslaught, and British ships were streaming across the Straits of Dover from Dunkirk. (From the magazine, “Commentary,” March 1983, published monthly by the AmericanJewish Committee, New York, NY.)
If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry. Chekhov …
If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.
Chekhov
The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The …
The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind. Herbert Spencer
‘Social Statics’ (1851)
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…all are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights, of which when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, divide or divest their posterity. George Mason
Virginia Declaration of Rights, quoted in Murray N. Rothbard, (1977), Robert Nozick and the Immaculate Conception of the State
For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on …
For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. I Samuel 16:7