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2006 August 18
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"Do you think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power the government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." |
"It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislature
to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,
and to arm them with the terrors of death.
This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them." |
"Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive." |
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2006 August 17
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"Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail." |
"A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other,
in order that the people may require a leader." |
"[A] society deadened by a smothering network of laws
while finding release in moral chaos
is not likely to be either happy or stable." |
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2006 August 16
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"The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it." |
"What experience and history teach is this --
that people and governments never have learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it." |
"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'.
It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist
sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men
striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became the justification
of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the
greatest achievement that demagoguery attains." |
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2006 August 15
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"Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety
arising from political suppression are always greater than
the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom.
Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise." |
"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness
to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions,
just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered." |
"Force and reason --
which last is the essence of the moral act --
are at the two opposite poles.
The one who compels his neighbor...
treats him, not as a being with reason,
but as an animal in whom reason is not." |
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2006 August 14
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"The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life." |
"Blessings of the state, blessings of the masses. ...
Work hard, increase production, prevent accidents, and be happy." |
"Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday...
skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and
their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and
derision and targets of persecution for either side...
in the great ideological wars of our time." |
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