There’s a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty…Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever
– Thomas Aldrich , letter to Professor E.S. Morse , circa 1889
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— Albert Jay Nock let us know
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VIDEO You Own Your Own Life…
To lose your Life is to lose your Future, to lose your Liberty is to lose your Present
…and to lose the product of your Life and Liberty is to lose that portion of your Past that produced it
A product of you Life and Liberty is your Property
— Ken Schoolland , The Philosophy of Liberty
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Every meal would be a pizza.
Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim.
Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library.
And – since women are a majority of the population- we’d all be married to Mel Gibson.
– P.J.O’Rourke , Parliament of Whores (1991)
The Tyranny of the Majority, vs the Unanimity of Liberty
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— Milton Friedman , The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits , The New York Times Magazine
The Tyranny of the Majority, vs the Unanimity of Liberty
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Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today?
It wouldn’t even get out of committee.
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– Thomas Jefferson , First Inaugural Address
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— Dave Barry
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– Ayn Rand , Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
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– Will Rogers , Saturday Review (25 August 1962)
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– P. J. O’Roarke , The Liberty Manifesto
Who Are the 47 Million Uninsured?
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– H. L. Mencken , Prejudices, the Second Series 1924
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— Max Stirner source unknown, please tell us if you know
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It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don’t think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at).
The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule.
The political principle that underlies the market mechanism is unanimity. In an ideal free market resting on private property, no individual can coerce any other, all cooperation is voluntary, all parties to such cooperation benefit or they need not participate.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today?
Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
I don’t make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.
Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man’s lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one’s self.
Words of the Sentient 