1039: Thomas Jefferson – Rightful Liberty is Unobstructed Action

Rightful Liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. —Thomas JeffersonDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 5.14MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 302KB
Rightful Liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. —Thomas JeffersonDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 5.86MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 353KB
Rightful Liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. —Thomas Jefferson

1032: Walter Williams – Government Draws in People with Bloated Egos

Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos. People who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, “in government, the scum rises to the top” —Walter Williams

1021: Murray Rothbard – Voting Does Not Imply Voluntary Consent

In an environment of State coercion, voting does not imply voluntary consent. Indeed, if the State allows us a periodic choice of rulers, limited though that choice may be, it surely cannot be considered immoral to make use of that limited choice to try to reduce or get rid of State power. —Murray Rothbard