John Quincy Adams//%Source%Speech before the House of Representatives, July 4, 1821; quoted in William Bonner and Pierre Lemieux (Editors), The Idea of America (Les Belles Lettres, 2003), p. 237
ANONYMOUS GOLD MINER//%Source%wooden post during California gold rush, c. 1849, Quoted in John Umbeck, "Might Makes Rights: A Theory of the Formation and Initial Distribution of Property Rights", Economic Inquiry, Vol. 19 (January 1981), p. 50; from C. Shinn, Land Laws of Mining Districts (John Hopkins University Press, 1984), p. 558.
Sir William Blackstone//%Source%Commentaries on the Laws of England (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 17th edition, 1966, Vol. 1., Chap.1).
Russel Bouchard//%Source%Les armes à feu en Nouvelle-France (Montréal: Éditions du Septentrion, 1999), p. 11.
Randolph Bourne//%Source%The State (1918), available at http://www.slip.net/~knabb/CF/bourne.htm.
James Bovard//%Source%Lost Rights. The Destruction of American Liberty (St. Martin's Press: New York, 1994), p. 333.
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By the same author, see also Freedom in Chains : The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen (St. Martin's Press: New York, 2000).
Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan//%Source%The Power to Tax : Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), p. 166; available at http://www.econlib.org/library/Buchanan/buchCv9Contents.html (visited January 29, 2003).
Edmund Burke//%Source%quoted by Lord Acton in Lectures on the French Revolution (London: 1910), in J. Rufus Fears (Ed.), Selected Writings of Lord Acton, Vol. 1: Essays in the History of Liberty (Indianapolis: LibertyClassics, 1985), p. 206.
Richard Cartwright//%Source%in the Legislative Assembly, Canada, March 9, 1865; reproduced in Janet Ajzenstat, Paul Romney, Ian
Gentles, and William D. Gairdner (Eds.), Canada’s Founding Debates (Toronto: Stoddart, 1999), p. 19.
Cato//%Source%Letter 62 (1722) of Cato's Letters (1720-1723), quoted by Ronald Hamowy, "Cato's Letters, John Locke, and the Republican Paradigm", in Edward J. Harpham (Ed.), John Locke's Two Treatises of Government: New Interpretations (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992), p. 157.//%Other%Buy Cato's Letters at Amazon.com.
Benjamin Constant//%Source%"De la liberté des anciens comparée à celle des modernes" (1819), in De la liberté chez les Modernes (Paris: Librairie Générale Française, 1980), pp. 494-495; English translation: "The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns" (1819), in Benjamin Constant, Political Writings, Edited by Biancamaria Fontana (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 310-311.
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Benjamin Constant//%Source%Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments (1810) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003), p. 401-402.
Benjamin Constant//%Source%The Spirit of Conquest and Usurpation (1814), reprinted in Political Writings, translated and edited by Bancamaria Fontana (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 126. Later editions than the 1814 one had "despotism" instead of "abitrary power."
Voltairine de Cleyre//%Source%"Anarchism and American Traditions," Mother Earth, 1909; reproduced in William Bonner and Pierre Lemieux (Eds.), The Idea of America (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2003), p. 223.
Anthony de Jasay//%Source%The State (Oxford: Basic Blackwell, 1985), p. 123.
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Anthony de Jasay//%Source%The State (Oxford: Basic Blackwell, 1985), p. 18 and 20.
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%start%%cat=Statism//%Author%Anthony de Jasay//%Source%The State [1985] (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998), p. 205.
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%start%%cat=Individualism,Goverment,Statism//%Author%Anthony de Jasay//%Source%Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy, and Order (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), p. 49.
Anthony DE JASAY on the democratic state's drift to totalitarianism
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%start%%cat=Democracy,Totalitarianism//%Author%Anthony de Jasay//%Source%The State [1985] (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998), p. 287.
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%start%%cat=Democracy,Tyranny//%Author%Bertrand de Jouvenel//%Source%Du Pouvoir. Histoire naturelle de sa croissance [1945] (Paris: Hachette, 1972), p. 36; English translation: On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1993), p. 15.
Du Pouvoir. Histoire naturelle de sa croissance en vente chez Amazon France.
Available in English at Amazon.com.//%end%
%start%%cat=Money,Taxation,Socialism,Wealth//%Author%Bertrand de Jouvenel//%Source%The Ethics of Redistribution [1952] (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1990), p. 72.
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%start%%cat=Despotism,Tyranny//%Author%Estienne de la Boétie//%Source%Discours de la servitude volontaire (1574-1576), in Oeuvres complètes d'Estienne de la Boétie, Vol. 1, William Blake and Co. Edit., 1991, p. 96; English translation: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude.
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Available in English at Amazon.com, with an introduction by Murray Rothbard.//%end%
%start%%cat=Statism//%Author%Alexis de Tocqueville//%Source%Democracy in America, Vol. II (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), Chap. 6; available at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ch4_06.htm (visited December 22, 2002).//%end%
%start%%cat=Individual Rights,Statism,Travel//%Author%Frederick Douglass//%Source%Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself [1845] (Toronto: New American Library, 1968), p. 77 and 93-94.
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Also available in French at Amazon.fr.//%end%
%start%%cat=Liberty//%Author%Frederick Douglass//%Source%Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself [1845] (Toronto: New American Library, 1968), p. 103.
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%start%%cat=Despotism,Statism,Tyranny//%Author%Frederick Douglass//%Source%Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself [1845] (Toronto: New American Library, 1968), p. 106.
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Also available in English at Amazon.fr.//%end%
%start%%cat=Anarchy,Liberty//%Author%Émile Faguet//%Source%Politiques et moralistes du dix-neuvième siècle, Vol. 1 (Paris: Société Française d'Imprimerie et de Librairie, c. 1898), p. 226.//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Crime,Guns,Security//%Author%David Friedman//%Source%Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life (New York: Harper, 1996), p. 299.
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%start%%cat=Government,Statism//%Author%Milton Friedman//%Source%Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), p. 32.//%end%
%start%%cat=Authority,Egalitarian,Individualism,Liberalism,Statism//%Author%Friedrich Hayek//%Source%"Why I Am Not a Conservative," postcript to The Constitution of Liberty [1960] (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1972), p. 402.
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%start%%cat=Coersion,Hypocrisy,Morals,Puritan,Virtue//%Author%F.A. Hayek//%Source%The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972), p. 146.//%end%
%start%%cat=Constitution,Power//%Author%F.A. Hayek//%Source%The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944), p. 71.//%end%
%start%%cat=Licensing,Collectivism,Law,Responsibility,Statism//%Author%F.A. Hayek//%Source%The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972), p. 208.//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Despotism,Disarmament,Government,Nazi,Statism//%Author%Stephen P.Halbrook//%Source%"Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews, Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 17, No. 3 (2000), pp. 483-535; available at http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/article-nazilaw.pdf.
By this author, see That Every Man Be Armed : The Evolution of a Constitutional Right and Target Switzerland : Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II.//%end%
%start%%cat=Authority,Control,Government,NWO,Statism//%Author%Auberon Herbert//%Source%"The Ethics of Dynamite", Contemporary Review, May 1894; reproduced in The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays by Auberon Herbert (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1978), p. 226.
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%start%%cat=Collectist,Democracy,Government,Individual Rights,NWO,Statism//%Author%Auberon Herbert//%Source%"The Ethics of Dynamite", Contemporary Review, May 1894; reproduced in The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays by Auberon Herbert (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1978), pp. 202-203.
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%start%%cat=Dependence,Government,Statism,Welfare//%Author%Auberon Herbert//%Source%"State Education: A Help or Hindrance", Fornightly Review, July 1880; reproduced in The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays by Auberon Herbert (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1978), p. 77.
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%start%%cat=Coersion,Morality,Oppression,Statism,Taxation//%Author%Auberon Herbert//%Source%"The Principles of Voluntaryism" [1897], reproduced in The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays by Auberon Herbert (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1978), p. 393.
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%start%%cat=Dissent,Protest,Rebellion//%Author%Thomas Jefferson//%Source%letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787; reproduced in Thomas Jefferson, Writings (The Library of America, 1984), p. 889-890. //%end%
%start%%cat=Crime,Defense,Individual Rights,Responsibility,Self-Reliance//%Author%Claire Joly, Marie Latourelle, Maryse Martin, and Karen Selick//%Source%"Testostérone et contrôle des armes" , Le Devoir, February 19, 1999, p. A-11; reproduced on this site in the original French version, and in an English translation.//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Authority,Control,Disarmament,Guns,Usurpation//%Author%George Jonas//%Source%"The Issue Isn't Gun Control but State Control", National Post, July 23, 2003, p. A-15.//%end%
%start%%cat=Altruist,Economics,NWO,Peace,Utopian//%Author%John Maynard Keynes//%Source%The Economic Consequences of the Peace (London: Macmillan, 1919), p. 11.//%end%
%start%%cat=Drugs,Health,Prohibition,Smoking//%Author%Jules Laforgue//%Source%"La cigarette" (1880), quoted by Richard Klein, Cigarettes are Sublime (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1993), pp. 57-58; French translation: De la cigarette... (Paris: Seghers, 1995).
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%start%%cat=God,Health,Religion,Tolerance,Welfare//%Author%John Locke//%Source%A Letter Concerning Toleration [1689], Edited and Introduced by James H. Tully (Hacklett Publishing Company, 1983), p. 35.
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%start%%cat=Self-Reliance,Defense,Peace,Violence,Oppression//%Author%John Locke//%Source%Second Treatise of Civil Government [1690], #228 (Lasslet Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1960), p. 465.
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%start%%cat=Disobedience,Obedience,Power,Protest,Rebellion,Revolution,Safety,Security,Slavery,War//%Author%John Locke//%Source%Second Treatise of Civil Government [1690], #222 (Lasslet Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1960), p. 460-461; French translation by David Mazel (1691): Traité de gouvernement civil (Paris: Garnier-Flammarion, 1984), pp. 348-349.
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%start%%cat=Arms,Crime,Defense,Disarmament,Guns,Safety,Security//%Author%John R. Lott, Jr.//%Source%More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), p. 159.
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%start%%cat=Arms,Defense,Slavery//%Author%Lucanus (A.D. 39-65)//%Source%De Bello Civili (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library, 1988), IV, 579, p. 216.//%end%
%start%%cat=Constitution,Law,Justice,Oppression//%Author%James MADISON//%Source%"Federalist" # 62, in The Federalist (Indianapolis: Modern Library and National Foundation for Education in American Citizenship, n.d.), p. 406.//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Constitution,Guns,Defense,Militia,Tyranny//%Author%Joyce Malcolm//%Source%To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), p. 128.
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%start%%cat=Arms,Defense,Government,Individual Rights//%Author%Joyce Malcolm//%Source%To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), p. IX.
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%start%%cat=Debt,Economics,Freedom,NWO,Privacy//%Author%Patrick McGOOWAN//%Who%"The Prisoner")//%Source% Number Six, The Prisoner, 1968, the famous TV series.
Available at Amazon.com for zone 1: Set 1 (DVDs), Set 1 (VHS), complete collection (DVDs).
Version française en vente chez Amazon France (zone 2): complete collection (DVDs).//%end%
%start%%cat=Independence,Individual Rights,Individualism,Self-Reliance,Sovereignty//%Author%John Stuart Mill//%Source%On Liberty (1859) (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1978), p. 9.
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%start%%cat=Economics,Politics,Power//%Author%Ludwig von Mises//%Source%Human Action. A Treatise on Economics (1949), Third Revised Edition (San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes, 1963), p. 67.
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%start%%cat=Democracy,Economics,Resistance,Statism,Violence//%Author%Ludwig von Mises//%Source%Liberalism. The Classical Tradition (1927), Fourth American Edition (Irvington-on-Hudson: Foundation for Economic Education, 1996), p. 59, available at http://www.mises.org/liberal.asp.
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%start%%cat=Freedom,Government,Happiness//%Author%Charles Murray//%Source%What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation (New York: Broadway Books, 1997), p. xi.//%end%
%start%%cat=NWO,Obedience,Religion,Statism//%Author%Albert Jay Nock//%Source%Our Enemy, the State, c. 1935 (Delavan: Hallberg, 1983), p. 34.
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%start%%cat=Capitalism,Prohibition,Socialism,Statism,Trade//%Author%Robert Nozick//%Source%Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1994), p.163.//%end%
%start%%cat=Autocracy,Democracy,Despotism,Elections,Vote,rms,Defense,Slavery//%Author%Mancur Olson//%Source%Power and Prosperity. Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships (New York: Basic Books, 2000), p. 39.//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Defense,Democracy,Militia,Tyranny//%Author%George Orwell//%Source%Orwell: The Authorized Biography, Michael Shelden, (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991), p. 328.
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%start%%cat=Individualism,Liberty//%quote%" L'individualisme est une doctrine qui, au lieu de subordonner l'individu à la collectivité, pose en principe que l'individu a sa fin en lui-même; qu'en fait et en droit il possède une valeur propre et une existence autonome, et que l'idéal social est le plus complet affranchissement de l'individu. L'individualisme ainsi compris est la même chose que ce qu'on appelle encore la philosophie sociale libertaire."//%Author%Georges Palante//%Source%L'individualisme aristocratique, Paris, Belles Lettres, 1995, pp. 135-136.
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James PATERSON on the right of each to carry arms
//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Freedom,Defense,Militia//%quote%"... in all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms -- and these the best and the sharpest -- for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur."//%Author%James Paterson//%Source%Commentaries on the Liberty of the Subject and the Laws of England Relating to the Security of the Person, (London, 1877), Vol. 1, p. 441; quoted in Joyce Malcolm, To Keep and Bear Arms. The Origins of an Anglo-American Right (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), pp. 169-170.
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Georges RIPERT on invasive legislation
//%end%
%start%%cat=Obedience,Law,Honor,Servitude,Slavery//%quote%"L'homme vivant sous la servitude des lois prend sans s'en douter une âme d'esclave." "The man who lives under the servitude of laws takes, without being aware of it, the soul of a slave."//%Author%Georges Ripert//%Source%Le Déclin du Droit. Etude sur la législation contemporaine (Paris: Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, 1949), p. 94.
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Georges RIPERT on legal tyranny
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%start%%cat=Democracy,Hypocrisy,Politics,Power,Servitude,Slavery,Tyranny//%quote%"En présence d'une aussi étroite réglementation, l'homme peut-il encore se dire libre pour cette raison que la tyrannie qu'il subit est celle de la loi? Sans doute la puissance légale ne porte pas le nom de tyrannie parce qu'elle paraît établie dans un intérêt commun par la volonté générale, et en tout cas parce que l'arbitraire a peu l'occasion de se manifester. Mais le maître serait-il équitable, cela ne saurait empêcher ses sujets d'être esclaves. [...] Et quand la servitude dure et que la pensée se conforme à l'action, l'État devient totalitaire et la sujétion est complète. Comme c'est une servitude légale, on continue à dire que le régime est démocratique. C'est l'hypocrisie du langage politique." "Confronted with such a tight regulation, can man pretend to be free because the tyranny he is subjected to derives from the law? Of course, the legal power is not called "tyranny" since it appears to be established by the general will in the common interest, and since, in any event, occurrences of arbitrary power are infrequent. But a master's equity does not mean that his subjects are not slaves. ... And when their servitude lasts and their thoughts follow their behavior, the state becomes totalitarian and subjection is complete. Since it is legal servitude, the regime is still said to be democratic. Such is the hypocrisy of political language."//%Author%Georges Ripert//%Source%Le Déclin du Droit. Etude sur la législation contemporaine (Paris: Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, 1949), p. 69.
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Georges RIPERT on galloping legislation
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%start%%cat=Knowledge,Humor,Law//%quote%"Nous continuons à dire que nul n'est censé ignorer la loi. Mais il faut reconnaître quelque mérite à ceux qui la connaissent." "We continue to claim that nobody is supposed to ignore the law. But we must give some credit to those who know it."//%Author%Georges Ripert//%Source%Le Déclin du Droit. Etude sur la législation contemporaine (Paris: Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, 1949), p. 165.
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Murray ROTHBARD on conspiracy
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%start%%cat=Conspiracy,NWO,Statism,Welfare//%quote%"It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any outcropping of what is now called 'a conspiracy theory of history.' For a search for 'conspiracies,' as misguided as the results often are, means a search for motives, and an attribution of individual responsibility for the historical misdeeds of ruling elites. If, however, any tyranny or venality, or aggressive war imposed by the State was brought about not by particular State rulers but by mysterious and arcane 'social forces,' or by the imperfect state of the world – or if, in some way, everyone was guilty … then there is no point in anyone's becoming indignant or rising up against such misdeeds. Furthermore, a discrediting of 'conspiracy theories' … will make the subjects more likely to believe the 'general welfare' reasons that are invariably put forth by the modern State for engaging in aggressive actions."//%Author%Murray Rothbard//%Source%For a New Liberty (New York: Macmillan, 1973), p. 62.
Raymond RUYER on liberalism and anarchism
//%end%
%start%%cat=Anarchy,Centralization,Liberty,Socialism//%quote%"... l'anarchisme véritable, réalisable et réalisé, et non resté à l'état de déclaration sentimentale, c'est tout simplement l'économie libérale, avec tout ce qu'elle entraîne: démocratie politique, liberté civile (et non simplement civique), culture libre, et non subventionnée et dirigée. C'est l'économie libérale qui, seule, peut favoriser le « dépérissement de l'État » et de la politique – le dépérissement ou du moins la limitation – ce n'est pas le socialisme centralisateur." "... real anarchism, feasible and actual, as opposed to mere emotional statements, is simply the [classical] liberal economy, and everything that goes with it: political democracy, civil (and not only civic) liberty, free, unsubsidized, unplanned culture. It is only the liberal economy that can favor the "withering away of the state" and of politics – their withering away or at least their limitation; centralized socialism cannot achieve this."
//%Author%Raymond Ruyer//%Source%Éloge de la société de consommation (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1969), p. 267.
James SCOTT on the state's "civilizing mission"
//%end%
%start%%cat=Civilization,Centralization,NWO,Statism//%quote%"The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'."//%Author%James C. Scott//%Source%Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998), p. 82.
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Adam SMITH on people pretending to trade for the public good
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%start%%cat=Economics,Individualism,Trade,Wealth,Welfare//%quote%"By pursuing his own interest [every individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."//%Author%Adam Smith//%Source%An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chap. 2 (New York: Random House, 1937, p. 423); available at http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWNtoc.html (visited February 22, 2003).
Jeff SNYDER on abiding by the criminals' standards
//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Crime,Defense,Guns,Prohibition,Responsibility//%quote%"But to ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow. ... For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding."//%Author%Jeff Snyder//%Source%"Who's Under Assault in the 'Assault Weapon' Ban?", American Rifleman, October 1994, p. 53; excerpted from the Washington Times, August 25, 1994.
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Lysander SPOONER on democratic slavery
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%start%%cat=Democracy,Despotism,Election,NWO,Slavery,Vote//%quote%"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."//%Author%Lysander Spooner//%Source%The Constitution of No Authority (Boston: 1870), p. 28. Available on the Lysander Spooner website at www.lysanderspooner.org.
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Lysander SPOONER on government robbery
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%start%%cat=Crime,Economics,Government,Hypocrisy,Safety,Security,Slavery,TaxationWelfare//%quote%"But this theory of our government is wholly different from the practical fact. The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: 'Your money, or your life.' And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the roadside, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful. The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a 'protector,' and that he takes men's money against their will, merely to enable him to 'protect' those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful 'sovereign,' on account of the 'protection' he affords you. He does not keep 'protecting' you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villanies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave."//%Author%Lysander Spooner//%Source%The Constitution of No Authority (Boston: 1870); available on the Lysander Spooner website at www.lysanderspooner.org (visited March 8, 2003). See French translation, within a longer excerpt, on this site.
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Lysander SPOONER on public debt
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%start%%cat=Crime,Banking,Debt,Economics,Government,Slavery//%quote%"And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived."//%Author%Lysander Spooner//%Source%The Constitution of No Authority (Boston: 1870); available on the Lysander Spooner website at www.lysanderspooner.org (visited October 23, 2003).
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Lysander SPOONER on so-called "nations"
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%start%%cat=Authority,Foreign Policy,Law,NWO,Reason,Slavery,Sovereignty,Statism,UN//%quote%"The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades."//%Author%Lysander Spooner//%Source%The Constitution of No Authority (Boston: 1870); available on the Lysander Spooner website at www.lysanderspooner.org (visited March 8, 2003).
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Lyseander SPOONER on so-called sovereigns
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%start%%cat=Authority,Foreign Policy,Law,NWO,Reason,Slavery,Sovereignty,Statism,UN//%quote%"And the so-called sovereigns, in these different governments, are simply the heads, or chiefs, of different bands of robbers and murderers."
//%Author%Lysander Spooner//%Source%The Constitution of No Authority (Boston: 1870); available on the Lysander Spooner website at www.lysanderspooner.org (visited March 8, 2003).
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William Graham SUMNER on socialism and anarchism
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%start%%cat=Anarchy,Authority,Rebellion,Socialism,Statism//%quote%"I believe [William Graham Sumner] was one of the greatest professor we ever had at Yale, but I have drawn far away from his point of view, that of the old laissez faire doctrine. I remember he said in his classroom: 'Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes I am an Anarchist.' That amused his class very much, for he was as far from a revolutionary as you could expect."//%Author%Irving Fishe//%Source%before the Yale Socialist Club in 1941, quoted in Mark Thorton, The Economics of Prohibition (University of Utah Press, 1991), p. 17. See below, in the Anti-liberty section, for Fisher's comment.
Michael TAYLOR on the state as an addictive drug
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%start%%cat=Altruist,Dependence,Government,Statism,Welfare//%quote%" ... I suggest that the more the state intervenes in such situations, the more 'necessary' (on this view) it becomes, because positive altruism and voluntary cooperative behaviour atrophy in the presence of the state and grow in its absence. Thus, again, the state exacerbates the conditions which are supposed to make it necessary. We might say that the state is like an addictive drug: the more of it we have, the more we 'need' it and the more we come to 'depend' on it."//%Author%Michael Taylor//%Source%The Possibility of Cooperation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), p. 168.
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH on the fight to reclaim our liberties
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%start%%cat=Authority,Freedom,Liberty,NWO,Usurpation,Statism//%quote%"Today, The Daily Telegraph starts its 'A Free Country. campaign. Week by week, and in major individual investigations, we shall examine how freedom is being taken away, whether by Westminster or Whitehall or Brussels or any other authority. We shall try to annoy the control freaks, whether they are Right, Left or Centre, and we shall welcome allies for freedom from all quarters. The Conservative leadership contestants hardly breathe a word about freedom. The Labour Government's Queen's Speech is a shopping list of attacks on our liberties. There's plenty to do. Libertad o muerte!"//%Author%Daily Telegraph//%Source%editorial, July 5, 2001; available at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fopinion%2F2001%2F07%2F05%2Fdo01.xml (visited November 7, 2003).
Antré THIRION on our future emencipation
//%end%
%start%%cat=Authority,Control,Emancipation,Government,Independence,Police,Statism//%quote%"Pour cette émancipation à venir sont hors de course les idéologies visant à renforcer l'État, la police et les contrôles et à réduire la liberté."For this future emancipation, we have to rule out ideologies that aim at reinforcing the state, the police and controls in general, and at reducing liberty.
//%Author%André Thirion//%Source%Éloge de l'indocilité (Paris: Laffont, 1973), p. 326.
André THIRION on cops
//%end%
%start%%cat=Police,Statism//%quote%"Durant la traversée des quartiers populaires, on voyait parfois un flic se glisser honteusement dans son domicile, par une porte basse." "When you walked through working-class neighbourhoods, you would sometimes see a cop slipping shamefacedly into his own house by a side door."//%Author%André Thirion//%Source%Le Grand Ordinaire (Paris: Éric Losfeld, 1970), p. 26.
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Henry David THOREAU on escaping the state
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%start%%cat=Emancipation,Police,Prison,Statism//%quote%"I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour--for the horse was soon tackled--was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen." "On m'avait conduit en prison alors que je me rendais chez le cordonnier pour y chercher une chaussure en réparation. Libéré le lendemain matin, j'allais finir ma course et ayant enfilé ma chaussure ressemelée, je rejoignis un groupe qui partait aux airelles, fort impatient de s'en re-mettre à ma direction ; une demi-heure plus tard -- car le cheval fut bientôt harnaché -- je me trouvais en plein champ d'airelles sur l'une de nos plus hautes collines, à plus de trois kilomètres et de là, on ne voyait l'État nulle part. "//%Author%Henry David Thoreau//%Source%A Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849], available at http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/civ.dis.html; La Désobéissance civile, translated by Micheline Flak (Montréal: La Presse, 1973), p. 95.
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Henry David THOREAU on jail for resisters
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%start%cat=Disobedience,Justice,Police,Prison,Statism//%%quote%"Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."//%Author%Henry David Thoreau//%Source%A Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849], available at http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/civ.dis.html (visited June 24, 2003).
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Henry David THOREAU on serving the state through resistance
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%start%%cat=Conscience,Dissent,God,Morality,Protest,Resistance,Statism//%quote%"Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few -- as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men -- serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part ..." "D'autres, comme la plupart des législateurs, des politiciens, des juristes, des ministres et des fonctionnaires, servent surtout l'État avec leur intellect et, comme ils font rarement des distinctions morales, il arrive que sans le vouloir, ils servent le Démon aussi bien que Dieu. Une élite, les héros, les patriotes, les martyrs, les réformateurs au sens noble du terme, et des hommes, mettent aussi leur conscience au service de l'État et en viennent forcément, pour la plupart, à lui résister. "//%Author%Henry David Thoreau//%Source%A Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849], available at http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/civ.dis.html; La Désobéissance civile, translated by Micheline Flak (Montréal: La Presse, 1973), p. 60.
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Henry David THOREAU on the best government
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%start%%cat=Government//%quote%"I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe -- 'That government is best which governs not at all'; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have."//%Author%Henry David Thoreau//%Source%A Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849], available at http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/civ.dis.html (visited October 14, 2003).
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Mark THORNTON on the new prohibitionism
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%start%%cat=Alcohol,America,Centraliztion,Drugs,Prohibition,Smoking,Statism//%quote%"The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level."//%Author%Mark Thornton, Mark//%Source%"The Fall and Rise of Puritanical Policy in America", Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 1996), p. 159.
Alexis de TOCQUEVILLE on the tyranny of the majority
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%start%%cat=Democracy,Law,Justice,Sovereignty,Statism,Tyranny//%quote%"Quand donc je refuse d'obéir à une loi injuste, je ne dénie point à la majorité le droit de commander; j'en appelle seulement de la souveraineté du peuple à la souveraineté du genre humain. Il y a des gens qui n'ont pas craint de dire qu'un peuple, dans les objets qui n'intéressaient que lui-même, ne pouvait sortir entièrement des limites de la justice et de la raison, et qu'ainsi on ne devait pas craindre de donner tout pouvoir à la majorité qui le représente. Mais c'est là un langage d'esclave."//%Author%Alexis de Tocqueville//%Source%De la Démocratie en Amérique, Livre I [1835], Partie 2, Chapitre 7, section 2.
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TOLSTOY on the nature of the state
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%start%%cat=Government,Justice,Power,Statism//%quote%"The misapprehension springs from the fact that the learned jurists, deceiving themselves as well as others, depict in their books an ideal of government -- not as it really is, an assembly of men who oppress their fellow-citizens, but in accordance with the scientific postulate, as a body of men who act as the representatives of the rest of the nation. They have gone on repeating this to others so long that they have ended by believing it themselves, and they really seem to think that justice is one of the duties of governments. History, however, shows us that governments, as seen from the reign of Caesar to those of the two Napoleons and Prince Bismarck, are in their very essence a violation of justice; a man or a body of men having at command an army of trained soldiers, deluded creatures who are ready for any violence, and through whose agency they govern the State, will have no keen sense of the obligation of justice. Therefore governments will never consent to diminish the number of those well-trained and submissive servants, who constitute their power and influence."//%Author%Leo Tolstoy//%Source%Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence (Signet Books, 1968), pp. 238-239.//%end%
%start%%cat=Congress,Liberty,Property,Safety,Statism//%quote%"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session."//%Author%Judge Gideon J. Tucker//%Source%New York, c. 1866, as reported in David Friedman, The Machinery of Freedom (La Salle: Open Court, 1989), p. 146.//%end%
%start%%cat=Democracy,Despotism,NWO,Statism,Tyranny//%quote%"Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator simply means that there will be another dictator. ... the policies they follow will probably not be radically different. If we look around the world, we quickly realize that these policies will not be radically different from those that would be followed by a democracy either."//%Author%Gordon Tullock//%Source%Autocracy (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1987), p. 20.//%end%
%start%%cat=Government,Privacy,Statism,Taxation,War//%quote%"If the major opportunities for future growth of government lie in the area of conventional taxation, are there any defenses available to the citizenry? ... Perhaps the most fruitful advice comes in two parts. The first piece of advice is to avoid war and the rumor of war: this is history greatest boon to the tax man. ... The second piece of advice is to seek ways of inhibiting government's ability conveniently to increase its collections. Possibly the very increase in that ability that is in prospect can be turned to account by a constitutional provision which forbade the income tax, and perhaps even the storage of information regarding individual incomes by third parties, including government."//%Author%Benjamin Ward//%Source%"Taxes and the Size of Government," American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 72, No. 2 (May 1982), p. 350. //%end%
%start%%cat=Art,Government,Individualism,Press,Speech//%quote%"The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist ..."//%Author%Oscar Wilde//%Source%"The Soul of Man Under Socialism", in Oscar Wilde's Plays, Writings and Poems (J.M. Dent, 1930), pp. 281 and 283.
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%start%%cat=Bureaucracy,Despotism,Fascism,Statism,Totalitarian//%quote%"There is little to be feared from the standard picture of a totalitarian society in which 'cogs,' who are watched by Big Brother or his equivalent, carry out orders emanating from the top. Such a society would collapse in inefficiency. What is infinitely more fearsome is the capacity of a dictatorship to use the principle of competition to organize terror and murder."//%Author%Ronald Wintrobe//%Source%The Political Economy of Dictatorship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 328.//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Disarmament,Slavery//%quote%"No slaves shall keep any arms whatever, nor pass, unless with written orders from his master or employer, or in his company, with arms from one place to another."//%Author%A Bill Concerning Slaves//%Source% [1785], reproduced in Alfred Fried, Ed., The Essential Jefferson (Collier Books, 1963), p. 140.
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%start%%cat=Alcohol,Drugs,Fascism,Nazi,Prohibition,Socialism,Smoking,Statism//%quote%"Jena by this time was a center of antitobacco activism -- mainly through the labors of Karl Astel, director of the new institute [Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research] and president, since the summer of 1939, of the University of Jena. Astel was head of the Thuringia's office of Racial Affairs and a notorious antisemite and racial hygienist (he had joined the Nazi party and the SS in July of 1930) ... Astel was also a militant antismoker and teetolater who once characterized opposition to tobacco as a 'national socialist duty.' On May 1, 1941, he banned smoking in all buildings and classrooms of the University of Jena, and the following spring, as head of Thuringia's Public Health Office, he announced a smoking ban in all regional schools and health offices. Tobacco in his view had to be fought 'cigar by cigar, cigarette by cigarette, and pack by pack' -- hence his notoriety for snatching cigarettes from the mouth of students who dared to violate his Jena University tobacco ban."//%Author%Robert N. Proctor//%Source%The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), p.209. //%end%
%start%%cat=Communism,Happiness,NWO,Power,Religion,Statism//%quote%"Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. ... Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy." "Bénédiction de l'État, bénédiction des masses. [...] Travaille dur, accrois la production, évite les accidents, et sois heureux."
//%Author%Big Brother//%Source%George Lucas's movie THX 1138.
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%start%%cat=Collectivism,Fascism,Licensing,Sex,Socialism,Statism//%quote%"It would not be unreasonable, by analogy with a motor vehicle licence, that a permit to reproduce should also be needed with a minimum age of, for example, twenty-five, and a proof required that the parents are of sufficient maturity and financial resource to take proper care of the child. Young, sexually active, but emotionally immature teenagers would need help."//%Author%Sir Roy Calne//%Source%Too Many People (London and New York: Calder Publications and Riverrun Press, 1994), p.113.//%end%
%start%%cat=Canada,Censorship,Collectivism,Media,Puritan,Press,Sex,Speech,Statism//%quote%"After listening to the recordings containing the remarks made by on-air personalities on 10 and 27 September and 8 October and reading the stenographic notes, the Commission identified several remarks about the complainant related to her physical attributes, and sexual attributes in particular. There are multiple references to the size of her breasts; [translation] “her incredible set of boobs” ... The Commission considers that the remarks made about Ms. Chiasson were abusive and tended to expose her, and women in general, to contempt on the basis of sex, in contravention of section 3(b) of the Regulations. Further, the remarks do not meet the objectives of the broadcasting policy for Canada set out in the Act. The remarks did not meet the objective of high standard of programming required by section 3(1)(g) of the Act."//%Author%Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission//%Source%Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2004-271, Ottawa, July 13, 2004, par. 61 and 65; available at http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2004/db2004-271.pdf (visited August 15, 2004).//%end%
%start%%cat=Canada,Censorship,Collectivism,Equality,Media,Press,Speech,Statism//%quote%"The regulation prohibiting abusive comment that tends or is likely to expose a person or a group to hatred or contempt is necessary not only to avoid harm to the persons targeted, but also to ensure that Canadian values are respected for all Canadians. The broadcast of remarks that could expose individuals or groups to hatred or contempt can attract individuals to its cause and in the process create serious discord between various groups in Canadian society to the detriment of all of Canadian society. This harm undermines the cultural, political and social fabric of Canada which the Canadian broadcasting system is expressly meant to safeguard, enrich and strengthen. It also undermines the multicultural and multiracial nature of Canadian society, which the programming of the Canadian broadcasting system should reflect. Protection from the harms of abusive comment is for the benefit of all Canadians."//%Author%Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission//%Source%Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2004-271, Ottawa, July 13, 2004, par. 35; available at http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2004/db2004-271.pdf (visited August 15, 2004).//%end%
%start%%cat=Education,Socialism,Statism//%quote%"Je prétends revendiquer pour la nation une éducation qui ne dépende que de l'État parce que des enfants de l'État doivent être élevés par des membres de l'État." "I claim for the nation an education that depends only on the State, because children of the State must be raised by members of the State."//%Author%Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais//%Source%Essai d'éducation nationale et plan d'étude pour la jeunesse [1763] (Paris: Raynal, 1825), p. 15.//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Guns,Canada,Collectivist,Individual Rights,Individualism,Statism,Trade//%quote%"Jim Creechan, a University of Alberta sociologist, said some of the love of guns may have its roots in Alberta's pervasive free-enterprise model of behaviour. 'It's the whole idea that the individual is more important than the collective.'"
//%Author%Alanna Mitchell//%Source%"Canada's Copycat Killing: Gun ownership in Alberta approaches U.S. levels", Globe and Mail, April 30, 1999, p. A-1.//%end%
%start%%cat=Alcohol,Canada,Drugs,Health,Prohibition,Smoking,Statism//%quote%"After fifty years as a Prohibitionist, I am more convinced than ever that we need a good party, not just good men and good women. Most public officials are united in the war against terrorism. They, like we, are outraged at the deaths of some 3,000 Americans on September 11. Yet, most are willing to give unqualified support to the traffic in liquor and tobacco in exchange for campaign cash. Those products jointly claim at least 600,000 American lives each year. Two hundred die each year from use of alcohol and tobacco for every one who died in the September 11 attacks. Need another reason for being a Prohibitionist?"//%Author%David P. Dodge//%Who%Editor of the organ of the Prohibition Party//%Source%The National Statesman, September 2002, p. 3; available at http://www.prohibition.org/statesman-200208.pdf (visited July 16, 2003).//%end%
%start%%cat=Debt,Duty,Individual Rights,Individualism,Statism//%quote%"Le positivisme n'admet jamais que des devoirs, chez tous envers tous. Car son point de vue toujours social ne peut comporter aucune notion de droit, constamment fondée sur l'individualité. Nous naissons chargés d'obligations de toute espèce, envers nos prédécesseurs, nos successeurs, et nos contemporains. Elles ne font ensuite que se développer ou s'accumuler avant que nous puissions rendre aucun service. [...] Tout droit humain est donc absurde autant qu'immoral. Puisqu'il n'existe plus de droits divins, cette notion doit donc s'effacer complètement, comme purement relative au régime préliminaire, et directement incompatible avec l'état final, qui n'admet que des devoirs, d'après des fonctions." "Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. ... Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions"//%Author%Auguste Comte//%Source%Le catéchisme positiviste (1852), reproduit in Alain Laurent, L'Individu et ses ennemis (Paris: Hachette, 1987), pp. 255-256.//%end%
%start%%cat=Communism,Flag,Government,Statism//%quote%"Celui qui conspue les drapeaux d'un Etat se déconsidère aux yeux de tout citoyen civilisé et agit contre les lois. Mais celui qui conspue le drapeau rouge ... s'exclut lui-même de la communauté de tous les honnêtes gens." "Anyone who decries a State flag belittles himself before all civilized citizens, and commits an unlawful act. But one who decries the red flag ... thereby excludes himself from the community of all honest people."//%Author%Resolution of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party//%Source%April 1969, quoted by Jacques Ellul, Autopsie de la Révolution (Paris: Calman-Lévy, 1969), p. 239//%end%
%start%%cat=Anarchy,Socialism,Statism//%quote%"I believe [that William Graham Sumner] was one of the greatest professor we ever had at Yale, but I have drawn far away from his point of view, that of the old laissez faire doctrine. I remember he said in his classroom: 'Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes I am an Anarchist.' That amused his class very much, for he was as far from a revolutionary as you could expect. But I would like to say that if that time comes when there are two great parties, Anarchists and Socialists, then I am a Socialist."//%Author%Irving Fisher//%Source%before the Yale Socialist Club in 1941, quoted in Mark Thorton, The Economics of Prohibition (University of Utah Press, 1991), p. 17//%end%
%start%%cat=Health,Licensing,NWO,Privacy,Smoking,Statism//%quote%"One method of overcoming the difficult informational requirements of the allocation models described above is by enacting a requirement that anyone wanting to purchase cigarettes must first purchase a 'cigarette card'. The card, which could be based on the same magnetic strip (or computer chip) technology used for credit cards and ATM cards, would be issued to any legal-aged smoker who wanted to buy cigarettes and would have to be presented by the smoker each time she purchased cigarettes. […] A reaction of many readers may well be that our proposal gives too much information to government agencies, therefore creating a 'Big Brother' problem. We sympathize with that concern, but we believe the problem is not as significant as it may appear initially. First, it is not clear that the sort of information that the cigarette card system would generate is any different from the sort of information that the American public routinely provides to government and private agencies. In other words, it may be too late to worry about the sort of privacy concern that this proposal raises."//%Author%Jon D. Hanson and Kyle D. Logue//%Source%"The Costs of Cigarettes: The Economic Case for Ex Post Incentive-Based Regulation", Yale Law Journal, Vol. 107, No. 8 (March 1998), pp. 1292 and 1294.//%end%
%start%%cat=Despotism,Centralization,Election,Government,Nazi,Police,Statism,Tyranny//%quote%"The authority of local government was similarly attacked. The not inconsiderable power of the Länder disappeared as a result of the decree of 28 February [1933] and the manipulated elections which followed. Control of the police passed into the hands of the NSDAP. ... Local elections were abolished and Reich Administrators ... were appointed to rule in place of the locally elected heads of government. On 30 January 1934 all local assemblies were abolished, and states were made totally subservient to central rule."//%Author%Paul Hayes//%Source%"The Triumph of Caesarism," in Paul Hayes (Ed.), Themes in Modern European History 1890-1945 (London and New York: Routledge, 1992), p. 191.//%end%
%start%%cat=Arms,Disarmament,History,Nazi,Racism,Sovereignty,Statism//%quote%"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty."
//%Author%
Adolf Hitler//%Source%Hitler's Table Talks 1941-1944, Edited by H.R. Trevor-Roper (London: Widenfeld and Nicolson, 1953), pp. 425-426.
Adolf Hitler//%Source%quoted in Robert N. Proctor, The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), p. 74.
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Heinrich Hoffmann//%Source%Hitler wie ihn keiner kennt (Berlin: "Zeitgeschichte" Verlag, 1932), quoted at www.calvin.edu/cas/gpa/hitler2.htm.
John Howard//%Who%Prime Minister of Australia//%Source%quoted by Peter Shawn Taylor in The National Post, April 12, 2003, p. A-18.
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel//%Source%Emancipating the Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War (Chicago: Open Court, 1996), p. 23.
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Stephen Hymer//%Source%"The Multinational Corporation and the Law of Uneven Development", in J. Bhagwati (Ed.), Economics and World Order from the 1970s to the 1990s (Collier-Macmillan, 1972); reprinted in in H. Radice (Ed.), International Firms and Modern Imperialism (Penguin, 1975), p. 52.
John Maynard Keynes//%Source%The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (London: Macmillan, 1936), p. 129.
Hugh LaFollette//%Source%"Licensing Parents", Philosophy and Public Affairs, Winter 1980, reproduced at http://www.etsu-tn.edu/philos/faculty/hugh/lic-par.htm.
Charles S. Maier//%Source%In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), p. 81.
Benito Mussolini//%Source%"Fascism," Italian Encyclopaedia, 1932, reproduced in Michael J. Oakeshott, The Social and Political Doctrines of Contemporary Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1939), at http://198.114.210.72/facmats/cooper/readings/mussolini.htm.
Benito Mussolini//%Source%"Fascism," Italian Encyclopaedia, 1932, reproduced at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html.
Benito Mussolini//%Source%Speech delivered by Prime Minister Benito Mussolini before the Italian Senate, June 8, 1923. Reproduced in Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1923), pp. 308-309.
Benito Mussolini//%Source%Speech delivered by Prime Minister Benito Mussolini before the Italian Senate, June 8, 1923. Reproduced in Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1923), pp. 317-318.
Robert N. Proctor//%Source%"The Anti-tobacco Campaign of the Nazis: A Little Known Aspect of Public Health in Germany, 1933-45", BMJ, Vol. 313 (1996), pp. 1450-1453, available at http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/313/7070/1450.
Nazi slogan//%Source%quoted in Robert N. Proctor, The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), p. 218.
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James L. Nolan//%Source%The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century's End (New York: New York University Press, 1998), p. 9.
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Chi An//%Source%quoted in Steven W. Mosher, A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's fight Against China's One-child Policy ( New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993), p. 212-213.
The Emperor of Azania//%Source%in Evelyn Waugh, Black Mischief (London: Pinguin, 1932), p. 142.
St. George Tucker//%Source%in Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1803, p. 144), quoted in Stephen P. Halbrook, That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984), p. 100.
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Charles Tilly//%Source%The Formation of National States in Western Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), p.60.
Jack C. Westman//%Source% Licensing Parents: Can We Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect? (New York and London: Plenum Press, 1994), p. 243.//%end%
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