Government Revenue Through Taxation – Quote by Murray Rothbard
“Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.”
Murray Rothbard
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Harry Browne on the Consequences of Government Programs
“The bad consequences of a government program usually don’t show up immediately. And the delay may be long enough to hide the connection between the program and its results. So government never has to say it’s sorry – never has to take responsibility for ht misery it causes. Instead it can blame everything on personal greed, profit-hungry corporations, and the ‘private sector.’ And the government’s cure for the problems is to impose bigger programs, more regulation and higher taxes.”
Harry Browne
Arrogant Judgments of Young People – Thomas Sowell
“One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.”
Thomas Sowell
Aldous Huxley on Mass Psychology and Media
“Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights…and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.”
Aldous Huxley
Harry Browne Quote About Power and Politics
“It’s important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.”
Harry Browne
Quote on Power and Tyranny by Milton Friedman
“The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.”
Milton Friedman
Quote About Friendship by Umberto Eco
“There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.”
Umberto Eco
Politics and Facts by Thomas Sowell
“…Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.”
Thomas Sowell
Freedom and Equality – Quote by Milton Friedman
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
Milton Friedman
“The Real Hero” – Quote by Umberto Eco
“The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.”
Umberto Eco