Thoughts
From Herbert Spencer
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.
2013-04-12 at 16:56:06
And More From Thomas Paine
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.
2013-04-12 at 16:52:34
From T. Coleman Andrews
I do not like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of -from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs.- That is socialism. It is written in the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what is happening to him.
2013-04-03 at 12:51:28
From Fred Schnaubelt
The First Amendment is not a tool of the press. It is a tool of the people. It is not nearly so much a protector of the media as it is a protector of the peoples right to know, their right to hear the ideas of others, and their right to have their ideas heard without interference from the government.
2013-04-02 at 06:37:33
From Joel McDurmon
We have to stop applauding everything the military does as if it were automatically the gleam of national greatness, quit praising all soldiers all the time as sacrosanct individuals, and quit forbidding any criticism of the military as if it were the holy of holies.
2013-03-30 at 13:29:06
More From Mark Twain
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
2013-03-30 at 05:59:43
Yet More From Murray N. Rothbard
The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism.
2013-03-30 at 05:58:17
More From Murray Rothbard
The Libertarian creed rests upon one central axiom: that no man or group of men may aggress against the person or property of anyone else.
2013-03-26 at 04:26:19
More From Paul Craig Roberts
In the United States law is no longer a shield of the people against arbitrary government. Instead, law has been transformed into a weapon in the hands of the government.
2013-03-24 at 22:06:32
From Cousin Lucky
It was all caused by the movie Star Wars; every driver now feels that The Force will drive their car for them while they use their hands, and eyes, to text somebody, somewhere!!
2013-03-24 at 21:57:53
From Vladimir Lenin
Without Big Banks, Socialism Would Be Impossible.
2013-03-21 at 05:49:33
More From Frederic Bastiat
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of Everyone.
2013-03-19 at 05:34:10
More From James Madison
The Accumulation of All Powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, May Justly Be Pronounced The Very Definition Of TYRANNY!!
2013-03-17 at 09:04:28
And More Wisdom From Ayn Rand
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the Government is free to do Anything It Pleases, while the citizens may act only by Permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
2013-03-17 at 05:33:31
From Pete Du Pont
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.
2013-03-17 at 05:26:41