Monday, February 14, 2011

Quote of the Day

Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help...
Gandhi

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Quote of the Day

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.
Henry David Thoreau

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Quote of the Day

 The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone – one which barely escapes being no government at all.
H. L. Mencken

Friday, February 11, 2011

Quote of the Day

Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man – in temperament, character, and capacity – and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so.
Frank Chodorov

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Quote of the Day

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. 
Herbert Spencer 

Monday, February 7, 2011

Quote of the Day

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.
Lord George Lyttleton

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Quote of the Day

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.
US District Judge James C. Paine, addressing the Federal Bar Association in Miami, November, 1991