Tag: Politics

1153: Walter Williams – Politicians Exploit Economic Illiteracy

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy. —Walter Williams

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy. —Walter Williams

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1143: Janine Kent – Corruption is Corruption Despite the Reason

Corruption is corruption, despite the validity of the reasons it is carried out. —Janine Kent

1142: Dave Smith – We Are Going to Win Over the Party

We are going to out-recruit and out-work others and win over the party. If you want to beat us, out-recruit us and out-work us. — Dave Smith

1141: Murray Rothbard – The State is a Criminal Band

If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place. —Murray Rothbard

1137: Caryn Ann Harlos – Don’t Sell Your Principles for Fickle Votes

There is something wrong with treating libertarian principles like a cheap whore to be sold for fickle votes. —Caryn Ann Harlos

There is something wrong with treating libertarian principles like a cheap whore to be sold for fickle votes. —Caryn Ann Harlos

1135: Spike Cohen – A Completely Different Way of Looking at Government

We're not just a third party, we're a completely different way of looking at how government interacts with the people. We believe that people do best when they are the most free. —Spike Cohen

We’re not just a third party, we’re a completely different way of looking at how government interacts with the people. We believe that people do best when they are the most free. —Spike Cohen

1131: Angela McArdle – We should Conquer Our Challenges Directly

The answer isn’t to run away from conflict or challenges — it’s to address it directly, conquer our challenges in messaging and internal conflict, and integrate our shadow. —Angela McArdle

1119: Murray Rothbard – We Did Not Seek Politics

We did not seek politics, it was thrust upon us by the state. It is absurd not to make use of the political machinery to roll back the state. —Murray Rothbard

1097: Harry Browne – Republicans Govern like Democrats

Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats. —Harry Browne

1094: Murray Rothbard – There are No Utilitarian Revolutionaries

F1094: Murray Rothbard - No Utilitarian Revolutionaries — It is rare to find a utilitarian who is also radical, who burns for immediate abolition of evil and coercion. Utilitarians, with their devotion to expediency, almost inevitably oppose any sort of upsetting or radical change. Hence, utilitarians are never immediate abolitionists. They became mere gradualist reformers. But in becoming reformers, they also put themselves inevitably into the position of advisers and efficiency experts to the State. In other words, they inevitably came to abandon libertarian principle as well as a principled libertarian strategy. The utilitarians wound up as apologists for the existing order, for the status quo. Thus, they wound up as the image of the thing they had fought. —Murray Rothbard (For a New Liberty)

It is rare to find a utilitarian who is also radical, who burns for immediate abolition of evil and coercion. Utilitarians, with their devotion to expediency, almost inevitably oppose any sort of upsetting or radical change. Hence, utilitarians are never immediate abolitionists. They became mere gradualist reformers. But in becoming reformers, they also put themselves inevitably into the position of advisers and efficiency experts to the State. In other words, they inevitably came to abandon libertarian principle as well as a principled libertarian strategy. The utilitarians wound up as apologists for the existing order, for the status quo. Thus, they wound up as the image of the thing they had fought. —Murray Rothbard (For a New Liberty)