Posts tagged quotes
Mar 2 '12
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“It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.”
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Murray Rothbard (the birthday boy) [FWE’s Quote of the Day, 3/2/12]
This quote has never been more relevant.
Feb 24 '12
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“Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. It is not considered sufficient that the law should be just; it must be philanthropic. Nor is it sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual, and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation.”
— Frédéric Bastiat [FreedomWithoutException’s Quote of the Day 2/24/12]
Feb 22 '12
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“A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.”
— Lysander Spooner [FreedomWithoutException’s Quote of the Day, 2/22/12]
Oct 29 '11
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“It’s the tenth anniversary of the Patriot Act. But what do you get for the government that knows everything?”
— Stephen Colbert [FreedomWithoutException’s Quote of the Day 10/29/11]
Oct 26 '11
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“Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.”
— Mary McCarthy [FreedomWithoutException’s Quote of the Day 10/26/11]
Oct 10 '11
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“The worst thing to call somebody is ‘crazy.’ It’s dismissive.”
— Dave Chappelle [FreedomWithoutException’s Quote of the Day 10/10/11]
Oct 6 '11
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“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
— Robert A. Heinlein [FreedomWithoutException’s Quote of the Day 10/6/11]
Oct 5 '11
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“…They put up with their servitude, not only because they had to yield to the superior force of the masters, but also because they fond some good in it: the slave is relieved of concern for securing his daily bread, for the master is obliged to provide him with the necessities of life. When liberalism [now called “Libertarianism”] set out, in the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, to abolish the serfdom and subjugation of the peasant population in Europe and the slavery of the Negroes in the overseas colonies, not a few sincere humanitarians declared themselves in opposition. Unfree laborers are used to their bondage and do not feel it as an evil. They are not ready for freedom and would not know how to make use of it. The discontinuation of the master’s care would be very harmful to them. They would not be capable of managing their affairs in such a way as always to provide more than just the bare necessities of life, and they would soon fall into want and misery. Emancipation would thus not only fail to gain for them anything of real value, but would seriously impair their material well-being… When those who recommended the abolition of involuntary servitude on general humanitarian grounds were told that the retention of the system was also in the interest of the enslaved, they knew of nothing to say in rejoinder. For against this objection of slavery there is only ONE argument that can and did refute all others — namely, that free labor is incomparably more productive than slave labor. The slave has no interest in exerting himself fully. He works only as much and as zealously as is necessary to escape the punishment attaching to failure to perform the minimum. The free worker, on the other hand, knows that the more his labor accomplishes, the more he will be paid. He exerts himself to the full in order to raise his income…”
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Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition [FreedomWithoutException’s Quote of the Day, 10/5/11] Apply the principles of “slavery vs. emancipation” to “welfare vs. individual freedom/absence of government force”. When we rely on the government for necessities, WE ARE THEIR SLAVES.
Oct 4 '11
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“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.”
— Montesquieu [FreedomWithoutException’s Quote of the Day 10/4/11]
Oct 3 '11
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“Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.”
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Ludwig von Mises [FreedomWithoutException’s Quote of the Day 10/3/11] ATTN: Occupy Wall Street protestors who are advocating for MORE government regulations. Read Mises. Change your focus. Vote Ron Paul.
