“Ask them to show you one revolution that turned out to be what it promised militantly … The thing is to protest — but protest nonviolently. They’ve got all the weapons, they’ve got all the money and they know how to fight violence because they’ve been doing it for thousands of years — suppressing us. [...]
Category Archives: Quotes
Thomas Paine — The Dupes of War
“War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.” – Thomas Paine
John T. Flynn — Beware Bipartisan Calls for Increased Regulation
“One of the most baffling phenomena of fascism is the almost incredible collaboration between men of the extreme Right and the extreme Left in its creation. The explanation lies at this point. Both Right and Left joined in this urge for regulation. The motives, the arguments, and the forms of expression were different but all [...]
William Graham Sumner — Struggling to Live off the Labor of Others
“All history is only one long story to this effect: Men have struggled for power over their fellow men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.” – William Graham Sumner h/t lawrence [...]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — The Hopelessly Enslaved
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John T. Flynn — The Road to Fascism
“All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.” – John T. Flynn
Frédéric Bastiat — At Whose Expense?
“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.” – Frédéric Bastiat
Thomas Sowell — Decision Making
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” – Thomas Sowell HT: Lawrence Reed
H. L. Mencken — The Demagogue
“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.” – H. L. Mencken
Frédéric Bastiat — Try Liberty
“God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away [...]
