Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.
The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and taxed at virtually every turn.
A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.
Romans were willing to tolerate any government abuse as long as there were bread and circuses.
Sound familiar?
Writing to Washington won't help; he's dead!
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms, disarm only those who are neither inclined, nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants. They serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a âGreat Leap Forwardâ that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children.
In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchyâs mayhem is wholly conjectural; the stateâs mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, "Make us your slaves, but feed us."
If you live on a good white street and your neighbor is sent to prison then you might start to wonder if your neighbor is really evil or are you living in a police state.
It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
It's illegal to say to a voter "Here's $100, vote for me." So what do the politicians do? They offer the $100 in the form of Health Care, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Food Stamps, tobacco subsidies, grain payments, NEA payments, and jobs programs.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Legalize Freedom: Vote Libertarian.
Libertarianism is the philosophy which says that you can run your life better than the government can, and you have the right to be left alone in order to do it.
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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