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1055: Rose Wilder Lane – No Need for Force, No Need for Government

W1055: Rose Wilder Lane - No Need for Government — The need for Government is the need for force where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. —Rose Wilder Lane

The need for Government is the need for force where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. —Rose Wilder Lane

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1044: Rose Wilder Lane – Ancient Superstition of Authority

So long as any large group of persons, anywhere on this earth, believe the ancient superstition that some Authority is responsible for their welfare, they will set up some image of that Authority and try to obey it. And the result will be poverty and war. —Rose Wilder Lane (The Discovery Of Freedom: Man’s Struggle Against Authority)

1043: Tom Woods – How Many Would Stand Up to Propaganda

W1043: Tom Woods - Stand Up to Propaganda — There are a lot that will generally cheer on the free-market. But how many are going to stand up to the entire regime, to its intellectuals, to its media, when the chips are down and the propaganda is flying? The number is vanishingly small. —Tom Woods

There are a lot that will generally cheer on the free-market. But how many are going to stand up to the entire regime, to its intellectuals, to its media, when the chips are down and the propaganda is flying? The number is vanishingly small. —Tom Woods

1041: Gloria Alvarez – Socialism Has Failed on Every Continent

W1041: Gloria Alvarez - Socialism Has Failed — We have seen Socialism fail on every continent of the planet. But when there is ignorance and when there are people who resent the way of competition and free-market ideas then Socialism can arise. —Gloria Alvarez

We have seen Socialism fail on every continent of the planet. But when there is ignorance and when there are people who resent the way of competition and free-market ideas then Socialism can arise. —Gloria Alvarez

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

W1032: Walter Williams - Government and 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

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

1022: Larry Sharpe – Laws Are Not the Answer

Laws are not the answer. More laws are not going to help. You don’t have to have a law for everything. —Larry Sharpe

1019: F.A. Hayek – Psychological Change That Will Destroy Liberty

F1019: F.A. Hayek - Psychological Change — The most important change which extensive government control produces is a psychological change, an alteration in the character of the people. This is necessarily a slow affair, a process which extends not over a few years but perhaps over one or two generations. The important point is that the political ideals of a people and its attitude toward authority are as much the effect as the cause of the political institutions under which it lives. This means, among other things, that EVEN a strong tradition of political liberty is no safeguard if the danger is precisely that new institutions and policies will gradually undermine and destroy that spirit.

The most important change which extensive government control produces is a psychological change, an alteration in the character of the people. This is necessarily a slow affair, a process which extends not over a few years but perhaps over one or two generations. The important point is that the political ideals of a people and its attitude toward authority are as much the effect as the cause of the political institutions under which it lives. This means, among other things, that EVEN a strong tradition of political liberty is no safeguard if the danger is precisely that new institutions and policies will gradually undermine and destroy that spirit.

1014: Ludwig Von Mises – Man’s Fallibility and Moral Weakness is in Govt Too

W1014: Ludwig Von Mises - Man's Fallibility — If one rejects laissez faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. —Ludwig Von Mises

If one rejects laissez faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. —Ludwig Von Mises

1008: C.S. Lewis – Moral Busybodies are the Most Oppressive

F1008: C.S. Lewis - Moral Busybodies — A tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. —C.S. Lewis

A tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. —C.S. Lewis

1006: H.L. Mencken – Idiotic Ideas Require Force

W1006: H.L. Mencken - Idiotic Ideas — The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. —H.L. Mencken

The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. —H.L. Mencken