Notable Quotable 419

Feb 13, 2026

It is hard to determine whether the brazen brashness of the bureaucrats or toxic passivity of the public has been more shocking.

- James Tunney, TechBondAge: Slavery of the Human Spirit

Every dollar they saved was worth less with every financial crisis, while the government just printed more money to preserve the stock markets, the financial status of the elites, and the banks who served them.

- Kenneth Eade, An Evil Trade

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

- G.K. Chestertown

The family is essentially a protective force, and not least against the claims of the state. It is an area of private custom, as opposed to public law. It is an alternative to the state as a focus of loyalty, and thus a humanizing force in society. Unlike the state, it upholds non-material values, makes them paramount, indeed. It repudiates the exclusive claims of realpolitik. The family, in fact, is a gentle ideology in itself, because it is inconcievable without a system of morality based on altruism. The family embraces tradition rather than fashionable dogma. It upholds a balance of rights and responsibilities, and not merely within generations: it insists on respect for the past, and concern for the future.

- Paul Johnson

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The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

- C.S. Lewis

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

- H. L. Mencken

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

- Ludwig von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

The state lieth in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it saith it lieth; and whatever it hath it hath stolen.**False is everything in it; with stolen teeth it biteth, the biting one. False are even its bowels.

- Friedrich Nietzsche