Thoughts
From Brittany Hunter
For individuals to be able to lift themselves out of poverty, they must have the freedom to be self-sufficient through their own entrepreneurial efforts.
2018-07-21 at 09:27:10
From Shaun King
To be black in the United States of America is to constantly be told that what you know - the facts you have actually experienced, the life you have actually lived, and all of the pain and problems and injustice that comes with that life - only matters when a white person in authority says so.
2018-07-19 at 16:07:50
More From Murray N. Rothbard
Putting an end to inflation requires not only the abolition of the Fed but also the abolition of the FDIC and FSLIC. At long last, banks would be treated like any firm in any other industry. In short, if they can not meet their contractual obligations they will be required to go under and liquidate
2018-07-15 at 08:27:18
From George C. Roche III
The basic immorality involved in coercion of men soon corrupts not only the wielder of such power, but those over whom the power is wielded.
2018-07-13 at 17:43:53
From Robert G. Bearce
I strive for tolerance and gentlemanly conduct. All that is required in any of us is understanding, humility, honesty, sincerity, and tolerance.
2018-07-10 at 14:47:33
From Leslie Snyder
Justice is the only foundation upon which a society of free and independent people can exist. Justice is a concrete, recognizable, and objective principle. It is not a matter of opinion.
2018-07-09 at 17:24:35
From William Leggett
Whenever a Government assumes the power of discriminating between the different classes of the community, it becomes, in effect, the arbiter of their prosperity, and exercises a power not contemplated by any intelligent people in delegating their sovereignty to their rulers. It then becomes the great regulator of the profits of every species of industry, and reduces men from dependence on their own exertions, to a dependence on the caprices of their Government. Governments possess no delegated right to tamper with individual industry a single hairs-breadth beyond what is essential to protect the rights of person and property.
2018-07-06 at 18:26:45
From Lord Acton
The third tool of discipline or technique of dealing with the pain of problem-solving, which must continually be employed if our lives are to be healthy and our spirits are to grow, is dedication to the truth. Superficially, this should be obvious. For truth is reality. That which is false is unreal. The more clearly we see the reality of the world, the better equipped we are to deal with the world. The less clearly we see the reality of the world - the more our minds are befuddled by falsehood, misconceptions and illusions - the less able we will be to determine correct courses of action and make wise decisions. Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life. If the map is true and accurate, we will generally know where we are, and if we have decided where we want to go, we will generally know how to get there. If the map is false and inaccurate, we generally will be lost.
2018-07-05 at 16:38:25
From Charles B. Shuman
The greatest threat to the future of our nation -- to our freedom -- is not foreign military aggression .. but the growing dependence of the people on a paternalistic government. A nation is no stronger than its people and the best measure of their strength is how they accept responsibility. There will never be a great society unless the materialism of the welfare state is replaced by individual initiative and responsibility.
2018-07-02 at 11:08:10
More From Ayn Rand
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to mans rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is mans deadliest enemy. It is not as protection against private actions, but against governmental actions that the Bill of Rights was written.
2018-06-28 at 13:29:26
From Bettina Bien Greaves
To maintain peace throughout the world, the grounds for conflict should be reduced as much as possible. The first step in this direction must be to respect and protect private property throughout the world. The ideal would also include complete freedom of trade and freedom of movement. Political boundaries would no longer be determined under threat of military conquest or aggressive economic nationalism, but rather by legal plebiscite, i.e., by vote of the individuals concerned. In such a world, the national sovereignty under which one lived or worked would be relatively immaterial.
2018-06-26 at 15:28:29
From John W. Whitehead
The American people are being duped, deceived, double-crossed, cheated, lied to, swindled and conned into believing that the government and its army of bureaucrats-the people we appointed to safeguard our freedoms-actually have our best interests at heart.
2018-06-26 at 04:44:18
From Kirstjen Nielsen
Whether it was the genocide of indigenous people, slavery, Jim Crow laws, the Chinese Exclusion Act and other laws discriminating against Asian immigrants, the internment of Japanese Americans, segregation, or the current-day separation policy, institutional racism has been a part of the United States of America every single day of its existence.
2018-06-25 at 11:41:38
From William Ernest Hocking
For in the last analysis, the thought and conscience of the individual man are the only thought and conscience there are.. There is, in literal truth, no public mind: there are only the minds of the persons composing the public. There is no public conscience; there are only their several consciences. Dry these functions up, or bind the life out of them, and all the mental and moral life of the public is stopped at its source.
2018-06-21 at 11:30:11
From Samuel Eliot Morison
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
2018-06-20 at 17:08:49