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H. L. Mencken quote about democracy, mediocrity, and the presidencyCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H. L. Mencken
Capitalism quote by Roland Baader about the impact of statism and socialism on free marketsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To call the miserable remnants of the free market and free society, which the statism of the modern welfare dictatorship and the creeping socialism of the welfare state have left behind as a kind of market-economic carcass, "capitalism" and to attribute everything that killed it as its own excesses can only appear as an intellectual capacity in a country whose intellectual soil is poisoned by centuries of practiced state mysticism." Roland Baader
Quote by Roland Baader on the importance of the market economy in securing freedom.Copyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It may be too late to avert the financial disaster that lies ahead of us, but we must at least prevent the road to financial ruin from also becoming a road to servitude. Let's talk our heads off and write our fingers to the bone, let's make ourselves outsiders and ridiculed figures if necessary, but let's fight to ensure that the basis of people's freedom, the market economy, is not presented to them as the alleged culprit and executed by the henchmen of power under the false pretext. Otherwise, it is we ourselves, our happiness and prosperity and freedom, who die with the market. Let us free ourselves from the true evil, from the fuel of presumptuous domination and destructive lies: from state counterfeit money." Roland Baader