"The disastrous actions of the U.S. government at the southern border represent a unique attack on Texas. For supporters of Texas Independence, these actions are merely others in a long line of abuses. Supporters of TEXIT are no longer wondering whether staying in the union is worth it. We are wondering when the people of Texas will claim their inherent political power guaranteed by the Texas Constitution and exercise their political will to declare their independence from a failed federal government."
Sarah Weis
"Most contemporary governments have more popular support than Soviet Bloc regimes received in the 1980s. But sustained abuses can be an acid drip that eventually topples any government regardless of its purported mandate. More Americans believe in witches, ghosts, and astrology nowadays than trust the federal government. In the covid-19 era, America is degenerating into a cage keeper democracy, where voters merely select the politicians who place them under house arrest.
Expecting liberty to permanently triumph would require rulers to miraculously become selfless if not self-sacrificing. But, as Hayek warned in his essay 'Why the Worst Get on Top,' power is a magnet for the dregs of humanity. Faith in the state will continue reviving as long as some people feel entitled to domineer other people. Political action pays a higher premium on deceit than almost any other human activity and thus will remain perilous to everything decent. 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,' as our forefathers recognized in the nineteenth century."
James Bovard
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage."
Alexander Fraser Tytler
"When the president and his gang target people whom they deem 'worthy of death' by bomb and drone strikes, without a trial, how is that not a hate crime? Abolish all hate crimes unless state actors are charged, as well.
All crimes are hate crimes. Never heard of a love crime."
David Maharaj
"It is a sound interpretive rule, however, that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending persons cannot be beneficial to one and all. The mass belief in the general beneficence of democracy represents a kind of Stockholm syndrome writ large. Yet, no matter how widely this syndrome may extend, it cannot alter the basic fact that owing to the operation of government as we know it — that is, government without genuine, express, individual consent — a minority lives on balance at the expense of the rest, and the rest therefore lose on balance in the process, while the oligarchs (elected or not, it scarcely matters) preside over the enormous web of criminal organizations we know as the state."
Robert Higgs
"If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn."
Thomas Merton
"We are living a nightmare. The only escape from this horror is to wake up. If the many continue to sleep and continue to practice mass obedience, those of us willing to fight back will be targeted by this horrific state. If the people willing to stand up against this tyranny are silenced, incarcerated, or exterminated, all hope will be lost, and this American society will no longer exist in its present form. But if large numbers refuse to comply, refuse to take orders, and refuse to allow this totalitarian takeover, then we all win. Division will destroy us, but solidarity will defeat the enemy that is the state. It is time to put great fear in the hearts and minds of any ruler, politician, or enforcer that would attempt to control or enslave us!"
Gary D. Barnett
"The last year with its lockdowns and Marxist riots, its masks and anti-social distancing, has wreaked innumerable atrocities. Whether it’s the small businesses and dreams that perished or the folks who killed themselves because Leviathan forced us into isolation, politicizing a germ has destroyed our world. Understandably, that destruction has discouraged and depressed many Patriots.
But why? The shamdemic has educated Americans (and indeed the world!) on the tenets of freedom as nothing else could have! We’ve beheld totalitarianism up close and rejected it. COVIDiocy has recruited millions, who knew little about liberty and cared less, to freedom’s cause. Serfs previously content to let the State’s crimes slide are now vigilant against the ruling criminals."
Becky Akers
"History is rife with examples of government action ostensibly to 'help the people' resulting in privation, destruction, death and turmoil. Anyone who has truly studied the history of governments around the world has seen that the elected class — with very few exceptions — is populated by a psychopathic mix of destroyers and seekers of wealth and power. They pay little mind to the consequences of their actions. What is relevant to them is their glorification, gratification and security at the seat of power."
Bob Livingston
"As the presidency assumes ever more power unto itself, it becomes less and less accountable and more and more tyrannical. These days, when we say the federal government, what we really mean is the presidency. When we say national priorities, we really mean what the presidency wants. When we say national culture, we mean what the presidency funds and imposes.
The presidency is presumed to be the embodiment of Rousseau’s general will, with far more power than any monarch or head of state in pre-modern societies. The US presidency is the apex of the world’s biggest and most powerful government and of the most expansive empire in world history. As such, the presidency represents the opposite of freedom. It is what stands between us and our goal of restoring our ancient rights."
Lew Rockwell
"Conservatives and moderates have almost nothing in common with the political left anymore; conservatives want the freedom of speech, the right to self-defense, the right to honest and accurate information, self-reliance, economic freedom, secure borders and small government. Leftists support mass censorship, disarmament, business shutdowns, lockdown mandates, open borders, the nanny state, centralization and tyranny. Perhaps it is time we separate and build the societies we want, and well away from each other.
Let's see which system thrives and which one collapses. Let's see which system people want to join and which system people want to escape."
Brandon Smith
"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects” Indeed, consensus has gotten very good at masquerading as conviction!"
Margaret Thatcher
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