A nation of people who just do what they are told by the ‘experts’ without question is a nation ripe for a descent into total tyranny. —Ron Paul
Tag: Conformity
People are not comfortable with freedom. They’re scared, they’re worried that if people can do whatever they want, the rich will abuse the poor, the strong will abuse the weak. It’s just easier to believe that if you elect wise people who want to help, that it will be better. But it doesn’t help.
Once I learned [libertarianism] it was just clear to me, but most people will never either spend the time to learn it or they can’t learn it. —John Stossel
There are, to be sure, free spirits in the world, but their freedom, in the last analysis, is not much greater than that of a canary in a cage. They may leap from perch to perch; they may bathe and guzzle at their will; they may flap their wings and sing. But they are still in the cage… Democracy provides swarms of such men. —H.L. Mencken
If even a sizeable minority simply refuses to comply, the order becomes unenforceable, and eventually gets repealed. We saw this with mask mandates in many places across the US, where they were ignored by a few, then by many, then by almost everyone, then were repealed. —Spike Cohen (Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential Candidate 2020)
There comes a time when silence is betrayal. There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. —Martin Luther King
