Friday 26 July 2023
| “ | You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help little men by tearing down big men. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves. |
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| — -William J. H. Boetcker | ||
| “ | Governments govern best when governments governs least | ” |
| — -Thomas Paine | ||
| “ | Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases |
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| — -Thomas Jefferson | ||
| “ | A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither.
A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both |
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| — -Milton Friedman | ||
| “ | The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money. | ” |
| — -Margaret Thatcher | ||
| “ | It is the common error of Socialists to overlook the natural indolence of mankind; their tendency to be passive, to be the slaves of habit, to persist indefinitely in a course once chosen. Let them once attain any state of existence which they consider tolerable, and the danger to be apprehended is that they will thenceforth stagnate; will not exert themselves to improve, and by letting their faculties rust, will lose even the energy required to preserve them from deterioration. Competition may not be the best conceivable stimulus, but it is at present a necessary one, and no one can foresee the time when it will not be indispensable to progress. | ” |
| — -John Stuart Mill | ||
| “ | Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions. | ” |
| — -Bob Latta | ||
| “ | We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions. | ” |
| — -Adolf Hitler | ||
| “ | What distinguished Nazism from other brands of socialism and communism was not so much that it included more aspects from the political right (though there were some). What distinguished Nazism was that it forthrightly included a worldview we now associate almost completely with the political left: identity politics. This was what distinguished Nazism from doctrinaire communism, and it seems hard to argue the marriage of one leftist vision to another can somehow produce right-wing progeny. | ” |
| — -Jonah Goldberg | ||
| “ | The goal of socialism is communism. | ” |
| — -Vladimir Lenin | ||
| “ | No law shall be passed restraining the free expression of opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write, or print freely on any subject whatever; but every person shall be responsible for the abuse of this right. | ” |
| — Oregon Constitution, Art. I §8 | ||
| “ | This isn't new. Those who favor socialism always make the moral case for it. The truth is, maybe they actually believe in it, but in the real world, socialism harms, it weakens the economies of countries that have tried it. It just does. Weaker economies hurt everybody in them. Socialism kills incentive, opportunity, freedom. It is the opposite of what America is all about. Look, socialism always harms the people it claims to help the most. It handicaps them, leaving them weaker, less self-determined, less free. | ” |
| — -Bobby Jindal | ||
| “ | When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. | ” |
| — -Frédéric Bastiat | ||
| “ | Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution. | ” |
| — -Ben Shapiro | ||
| “ | I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. | ” |
| — -Sidney Hook | ||
| “ | In 1989, for two hours' labor at the minimum wage, an American worker could obtain, at a corner Sizzler, a feast more opulent, more nutritionally rich and gastronomically diverse than anything available to almost all the citizens of the socialist world (including the elite) at almost any price. | ” |
| — -David Horowitz | ||
| “ | In practice, socialism didn’t work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. | ” |
| — -David Horowitz | ||
| “ | I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty. | ” |
| — -John Mackey | ||
| “ | Socialism values equality more than liberty. | ” |
| — -Dennis Prager | ||
| “ | Socialism is for those who think most people are losers. Capitalism is for those who think most people can take care of themselves. | ” |
| — -John Hawkins | ||
| “ | Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. | ” |
| — -William Howard Taft | ||
| “ | Socialism provides safety in numbers. And that’s OK, if you don’t mind trading your name—your identity and individualism — for a number. | ” |
| — -Jarod Kintz | ||
| “ | The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. | ” |
| — -Ludwig von Mises | ||
| “ | Socialists cry 'Power to the people', and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean--power over people, power to the State. | ” |
| — -Margaret Thatcher | ||
| “ | The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. | ” |
| — -Winston Churchill | ||
| “ | Government is not the solution to our problems.Government is the problem! | ” |
| — -Ronald Reagan | ||
| “ | Governments loathe people being free | ” |
| — -The Boat that Rocked | ||
| “ | The whole point of being in government if you dont like somthing you simpley make a new law that make it illegel | ” |
| — -The Boat that Rocked | ||
| “ | The smallest minority on earth is the individual.
Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. |
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| — -Ayn Rand | ||
| “ | I’m in favor of legalizing drugs.
According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. It is because it's prohibited. See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true. |
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| — -Milton Friedman | ||
| “ | Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. | ” |
| — -Harry Browne | ||
| “ | Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. | ” |
| — -P.J. O'Rourke | ||
| “ | An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. | ” |
| — -Confucius | ||
| “ | Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. |
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| — -Ronald Reagan | ||
| “ | I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man, standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. | ” |
| — -Winston Churchill | ||
| “ | Nothing so needs reforming as other people habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky
It is the prohibition that makes anything precious. |
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| — -Mark Twain | ||
DR ADAM CARR'S ELECTION ARCHIVE
AUSTRALIA GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS - UWA
CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT STUDIES
AUSTRALIAN LIBERTARIAN SOCIETY
PARLIAMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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