Notable Quotable 135

Oct 30, 2023

The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so doing, it reveals the fraud at the heart of its impudent claims and gives sufficient proof that it is not a genuine protector, but a mere protection racket.

- Robert Higgs

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

- Ferdinand Foch

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilisation, then prepare to accept barbarism.

- Thomas Sowell

Our boys were sent off with beautiful ideals painted in front of them. No-one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason they were marching off to kill and die.

- General Smedley Butler

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One thing, however, is sure, – that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

- Benjamin Tucker

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

- David Rockefeller

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos, is because things are being loved and people are being used.

- Unknown author

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

- William Godwin