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[Mercantilism is] a system of statism which employed economic fallacy to build up a structure of imperial state power, as well as special subsidy and monopolistic privilege to individuals or groups favored by the state. — Murray Rothbard, The Logic of Action, Vol. II [1997]
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Living a human life consists in the pursuit of a variety of values, some material, some not. Thus dividing freedom into spheres is both arbitrary and ultimately destructive. There is no economic freedom and non-economic freedom. ...more...
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The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybody’s actions aim at the satisfaction of other people's needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens. Everybody, on the other hand, is served by his fellow citizens...more...
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Another lesson we learn, is that defiance is a virtue unto itself. It is its own means, and its own end. Wherever people seek truth, and honor, no consequence is foreboding enough to stop them. Defiance takes no notice of the threat of death.
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It was August 19th, 1920. A military detachment of Red Army soldiers led by Bolshevik authorities steamrolled into the Russian t
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Libertarianism critics still assert that libertarians are greedy, objectivists are greedy, that those who advocate liberty and the free market would never help without being forced to do so.
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Of great importance to the public is the preservation of this personal liberty; for if once it were left in the power of any the highest magistrate to imprison arbitrarily whomever he or his officers thought proper, (as in France it is daily practised by the crown,) there would soon be an end of all other rights and immunities. Some have thought that unjust attacks, even upon life or property, at the arbitrary will of the magistrate, are less dangerous to the commonwealth than such as are made upon...more..
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If their object had really been to abolish slavery, or maintain liberty or justice generally, they had only to say: All, whether white or black, who want the protection of this government, shall have it; and all who do not want it, will be left in peace, so long as they leave us in peace. Had they said this, slavery would have necessarily have been abolished at once; the war would have been saved; and a thousand time nobler union than we have ever had would have been the result...more...
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The tragedy of so many intellectuals in the contemporary world is that while opposing extreme forms of totalitarianism, they are themselves half-totalitarian; that is to say, they express a desire for a society which is half-controlled, half-regimented, half-planned, part capitalist, and part socialist. This strange hybrid they will find (indeed, have found) to be a Frankenstein monster which, ironically, they have a great responsibility for creating. — George S. Schuyler, Black and Conservative [1966]
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books. — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Melish [January 13, 1813]
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Tomorrow’s drone warfare will likely mean "more" in one other area: more dead civilians. — Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt, “A Drone-Eat-Drone World” [June 1, 2012]
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It is strange that war, the most brutal of man's activities, requires the utmost delicacy in discussion.… War is liberty's greatest enemy, and the deadly foe of economic progress.… To fight evil with evil is only to make evil general. — Leonard Read, “Conscience on the Battlefield” [1951]
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Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is man's deadliest enemy. It is not as protection against private actions, but against governmental actions that the Bill of Rights was written. — Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness [1964]
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...Dr. Paul wants to be elected to the presidency to dismantle unconstitutional extensions of the President’s executive power ...
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Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions, constantly form associations. They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies, in which all take part, but associations of a thousand other kinds, -- religious, moral, serious, futile, general or restricted, enormous or diminutive. The Americans make associations to give entertainments, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes;...more...
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What freedoms did US troops increase or protect when they slaughtered unarmed, noncombatant indigenous folks within the boundaries of present-day US during the 19th century? What freedoms did US troops increase or protect when they caught and tortured non-cooperative residents of the Philippine Islands beginning in 1898? What freedoms did US troops increase or protect when they slaughtered 220,000 Filipinos during that same period?
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The transition to socialism, in the sense of an almost subconscious, sleep-walking sort of "maximax" strategy by the state, both to augment its potential discretionary power and actually to realize the greatest possible part of the potential thus created, is likely to be peaceful, dull, and unobtrusive. This is its low-risk high-reward approach...more...
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Brian W. Ryman ?"Trying to find the proper politician to lead us is like shopping for a straitjacket that fits well and looks nice." - Byrok Vidar
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William N. Grigg Remember the Americans who fought with doomed, desperate courage to defend their homes and families against the Leviathan State:
