No branch of government should ever be able to combine the power of the sword with the power of the purse.
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote – Frederick Douglass
Power never concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.
Friday Quote – H.L. Mencken
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
Friday Quote – H.L. Mencken
The trouble with fighting human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
Friday Quote – George Orwell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Friday Quote – F.A. Hayek
The curious task of economics is to to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Friday Quote- Stan Lee
If I got a superpower I wouldn’t say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?
RIP Mr. Lee and thanks for all the fun.
Friday Quote – Roman van Ree
Don’t be fooled by the words “socialism” and “communism”. Once you come to understand what they mean in terms of economic freedom you will know that they are anything but social, and have nothing to do with community. They simply mean “centralization of power in the hands of the people that make up the state, in the hands of the master class.
They are nothing but euphemisms for “slavery”.
Friday Quote- Jonathan Haidt
There are people who are less emotional and more reasoned. They’re called libertarians.
Not sure if I have the quote exactly right. I heard this on a recent Science Salon podcast. Damn near had an accident due to sudden burst of laughter.
Friday Quote – Jared Howe
Anything which requires the labor or property of other people is not a basic human right. That includes education, healthcare, food, internet access, housing, or anything else that involves an investment of capital and labor. To demand free goods and services from people who sacrifice time and capital to produce them is to demand that those people become your slaves. You don’t have the right to enslave people for food or education or healthcare anymore than plantation owners had a right to enslave people to pick cotton.