If you don’t know where you came from, then any road in front of you is acceptable. If you don’t know what didn’t work in the past, why worry about what lies in front of you?
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Notable Quote – Socialism provides no such Incentives
Capitalism provides many with the opportunity to display initiative. While the rigidity of a status society enjoins on everybody the unvarying performance of routine and does not tolerate any deviation from traditional patterns of conduct, capitalism encourages the innovator. Profit is the prize of successful deviation from customary types of procedure; loss is the penalty … Read more
Notable Quote – Government Planners, by Nature, Are Anti-liberty
Because they believe that THEY have the smarts to tell everyone else how they will live their lives. The perfect Administrative State tool – you can’t succeed unless we “order” your lives:
Notable Quote – “Safe” Means Free From Opposition
There have been many, many statements to the effect that gun owners, so-called “constitutionalists” (spoken as an epithet), libertarians, et al (any of a generally pro-liberty, anti-authoritarian mind) are essentially vermin, heretics who deserve no rights unless they recant.
Notable Quote – Yep, The Left STRIVES To Make You Free!
The Left is ALL about envy. Think about it – their entire schtick about replacing Equality with Equity is simple. They HATE that anyone can get ahead – they are envious that anyone can make something of themselves based solely on merit, motivation, talent, and a work ethic.
Why Top-down Socialist Economic Systems Are Always Doomed to Failure
No single individual, nor any collection of individuals, could have in their heads all the complex technical information on production processes and the nuances of personal feeling involved in matching millions of investment sources and users.
Notable Quote – WHY have we allowed Government to become so intrusive?
Government is a most discouraging aspect of existence because it is a pervasive given. In the hearts of 99 percent of readers is the desire to be left alone by government.
Notable Quote – You Know That Old Saw about “Those that cannot do, teach…”
And then there is Government: One of the reasons why government absorbs so much money and takes on ever-increasing powers is that it is home to so many people whose beliefs could not withstand the draconian tests of science, the marketplace or a scoreboard. What we the taxpayers are ultimately paying for is their insulation … Read more
Notable Quote – Environmentalism is Fascist Right From the Get-Go.
Ultimately, however, environmentalism is fascistic not because of its airy and obscure metaphysical assumptions about the existential plight of man. Rather, its most tangible fascistic ingredient is that it is an invaluable “crisis mechanism.”
Notable Quote – The State as Borg
The totalitarian state aims at obliterating all distinctions between itself and the citizenry (society) by penetrating and controlling every aspect of organized life. -Richard Pipes (Communism: A History)
Notable Quote – Decisions leading to Serfdom versus Freedom.
Emphasis mine:
The promotion of collectivism is combined with the profession of individualist values.
Notable Quote – This is ONE “Special Interest Group” Everyone Knows
Another way of describing “Public Choice” is how Government employees use their position within Government to get what they want instead of concentrating on serving those that pay their salaries.
Notable Quote – It Really IS all about Productivity!
Wage rates are lower in Indonesia than in the United States because workers in Indonesia are willing to accept less; they are willing to accept less because their alternative opportunities are so much poorer;
We Americans Used to Not Need Much Government but Progressives Screwed Us Over
“Here in America you can see how slightly a people needs to be governed… Here are governments, but no rulers – governors, but they are clerks.
Notable Quote – For Adolescent Minds Only
Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of our day – from academic feminism to cultural studies to queer theory – could only be perpetrated on adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only:
Notable Quotes – Best H.L. Mencken Quotes
I get a lot of stuff – and this time, these caught my eye. Mencken was an astute observer of the human condition. Glad it was sent in. I’ve bolded the ones “Most people want security in this world, not liberty.” “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” “Every election is … Read more
Notable Quote – Short and Sweet about our Founders and a Chair
I have always liked this one – Alexander Hamilton to Thomas Jefferson:
“There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair”
“It’s a Tricky Business, This Thing the Political Left Calls, ‘Progress.'”
Even the casual observer can’t help but notice that the progressive’s version of progress looks a lot like that dreaded backwardness of which they accuse everyone else.
Notable Quote – Socialism: Nothing More than a Faculty Lounge Idea?
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand.
Notable Quote – Capitalism Hasn’t Been “Unfettered” for Decades; Perhaps We Should Try It?
Once capitalism is seen as a profit-and-loss system, with everyone at the mercy of the sovereign consumer’s whims as he balances one marginal desire against another, the incidence of anticapitalistic criticism must shift.