1123: Justin Amash – Principles Matter

Don't let people convince you that principles only matter when the outcome is in your favor. Principles matter especially, and really only when the outcome is not in your favor. —Justin AmashDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 3.72MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 216KB
Don't let people convince you that principles only matter when the outcome is in your favor. Principles matter especially, and really only when the outcome is not in your favor. —Justin AmashDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 5.28MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 287KB
Don’t let people convince you that principles only matter when the outcome is in your favor. Principles matter especially, and really only when the outcome is not in your favor. —Justin Amash

1094: Murray Rothbard – There are 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)