Tag: Corruption

1199: Walter Williams – Tariff Victims are Invisible

Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity. —Walter Williams

Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don’t know whom to blame for their calamity. —Walter Williams

1179: Lew Rockwell – Democracy Enables Theft

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule, but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority. —Lew Rockwell

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule, but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority. —Lew Rockwell

1164: Tom Woods – State Monopoly of Power

If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions' authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow - regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power. —Tom Woods

If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions’ authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow – regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power. —Tom Woods

1157: Mark Groves – Stand on the Truth

If a truth burns down a relationship, a family, a community, or a society, it was only ever held together by lies. And to that I say, let it burn. I never want to live in a world where our need for ‘comfort’ supersedes our need to stand on a foundation only the truth can provide. —Mark Groves

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1156: Frederic Bastiat – The State Lives at the Expense of Everyone

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone. —Frederic Bastiat

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone. —Frederic Bastiat

1154: Ayn Rand – When the Law No Longer Protects You

When the Law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed. —Ayn Rand

When the Law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed. —Ayn Rand

1147: Don’t Compromise with the Corrupt

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

1143: Janine Kent – Corruption is Corruption Despite the Reason

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

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)