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2013 March 15
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"If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States,
I tell you there is no freedom of the press...
They come out with the cheap shot.
The press should be ashamed of itself.
They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides
and let the American people make up their minds." |
"The bigger the information media, the less courage and information they allow. Bigness means weakness." |
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2013 March 14
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"The spirit of liberty is the spirit
which is not too sure that it is right;
the spirit of liberty is the spirit
which seeks to understand
the minds of other men and women..." |
"If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on,
manifests itself primarily in the individual
and only secondarily in the mass,
then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom
as allows the individual to think and speak for himself." |
"The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man." |
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2013 March 13
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"The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence." |
"It's the misfortune of all Countries, that they sometimes lie under a unhappy necessity to defend themselves by Arms against the ambition of their Governors, and to fight for what's their own. If those in government are heedless of reason, the people must patiently submit to Bondage, or stand upon their own Defence; which if they are enabled to do, they shall never be put upon it, but their Swords may grow rusty in their hands; for that Nation is surest to live in Peace, that is most capable of making War; and a Man that hath a Sword by his side, shall have least occasion to make use of it." |
"The tragedy of the police state is that it always regards all opposition as a crime, and there are no degrees." |
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2013 March 12
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"The essential characteristic of Western civilization
that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified
civilizations of the East was and is its concern
for freedom from the state." |
"Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs,
there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right." |
"The task of weaning various people and groups
from the national nipple will not be easy.
The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will
fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice." |
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2013 March 11
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." |
"... 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." |
"A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body." |
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