Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"Texit is an acknowledgment of the fundamental problem in 21st century America- one size does not fit all. What is best for Texas and Texans is not necessarily what is best for every state of the Union. It is this one-size-fits-all mentality that derailed the American Union in the first place. It is the creed of unabashed allegiance to a system that used the federal government as a weapon to impose the political will of a select group upon everyone else. Federal elections have degenerated into contests for who gets to wield the club and bash the loser into submission. Texit says there’s a better way than the status quo. Let California be California. Let New York be New York. Let Texas be Texas."

Daniel Miller

"While capitalism is an economic system that is thoroughly and rationally planned, and continuously replanned in response to changes in economic conditions, socialism, as Mises has shown, is incapable of rational economic planning. In destroying the price system and its foundations, namely, private ownership of the means of production, the profit motive, and competition, socialism destroys the intellectual division of labor that is essential to rational economic planning. It makes the impossible demand that the planning of the economic system be carried out as an indivisible whole in a single mind that only an omniscient deity could possess."

George Reisman

"People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late."

G.K. Chesterton                                     

"The nature of government itself is a prize because the Constitution’s interpretation is so malleable and so open to enhanced powers of government. If immigrants favor larger government to a greater extent than current voters, no matter what party administers that government, then an already big government will find even more support and grow even larger."

Michael Rozeff

"Unilaterally lift all U.S. sanctions and embargoes. Unilaterally end all U.S. trade wars. Unilaterally lift all tariffs and trade restrictions. No trade negotiations and no trade treaties are necessary. Just free the American people, including American businesses, to travel and buy and sell with whomever they want anywhere in the world without U.S. governmental interference, taxation, regulation, or control. That is the key to liberty, peace, harmony, and prosperity."

Jacob Hornberger

"Freedom does not exist in a vacuum; it does not exist for those who do not exercise it. Seemingly convenient at first, rule by others quickly becomes arbitrary, descends into slavery and ultimately becomes murderous. Much has been said and written about the supposed checks and balances of the Constitution, but the only reliable check and balance against tyranny is self-government."

Bob Livingston

"Yes you can find individuals who care. You can walk into a post office and encounter a cheerful, friendly, helpful employee behind the counter. You can always find caring individuals who work within an uncaring bureaucracy.

But you can never find a 'caring' bureaucracy. 'Caring,' after all, is a human quality while 'bureaucracy' is a conceptual entity, not an individual person. A bureaucrat can care, a bureaucracy cannot."

Garry Reed

"I’m an anarchocapitalist. Which means I believe in a totally unregulated free market. But I’m not naïve about the numerous flaws in human nature. Large corporations are totally amoral. Count on them to be direct conduits to the NSA, CIA, FBI, or any other government agency. Don’t invite Dracula, disguised as Alexa or Siri, into your house."

Doug Casey

"The most sinister line from V for Vendetta:

'I want everyone to remember why they need us!'

That's the intellectual mission of the political class: to get us to consent, internally, to our own subjugation.

Why, where would we be without the paternal custodianship of our wise overlords?

We could never handle problems A, B, and C on our own! We need them!

We let ourselves be persuaded that commerce, culture, science, everything we value would be impossible outside of a political framework.

And we're supposed to treat as incorrigible heretics those free spirits who think we could have those things and more even without living under the thumb of taxing and warmaking politicians."

Tom Woods

"I don’t like to mix politics and rock’n’roll. I don’t look at Bono, Sting and Bruce Springsteen as political. I look at them as being humanitarian. I’ll contribute to anything humanitarian. Helping people who can’t help themselves. But when musicians are telling people who to vote for, I think that’s an abuse of power. You’re telling your fans not to think for themselves, just to think like you. Rock’n’roll is about freedom – and that’s not freedom."

Alice Cooper

"The war between Red and Blue won’t last long if it happens at all. One side has lots of guns, ammo and people that know how to use them. The other side is confused on which bathroom to use. 

Guess which side I’m on?"

Anonymous