Notable Quotable 84

May 25, 2023

The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. It is a process.

- Ludwig von Mises

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

- Henry David Thoreau

The real threat to our freedom is not from men hiding in caves in the Middle East wearing turbans. It’s from men wearing suits and ties in our governments.

- Noam Chomsky

Those who claim that they are ‘serving’ the public; they are the ones who should be ignored, shunned, ridiculed, and if necessary, tarred and feathered, and run out of town. They deserve nothing less.

- Gary Barnett

The next time any of you walk or ‘crawl’ into a secret voting booth, behind dark curtains, alone and without being driven by force, consider that you are just voluntarily choosing a master selected for you, and in that process, you have become a slave to the state.

- Gary Barnett

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He who rides a tiger cannot dismount.

- Bengali saying

You cannot separate peace and freedom. Because no one can be at peace unless he has freedom.

- Author Unknown

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

- Socrates

The power of government rests on ignorance of the people, and it knows this, and therefore will always resist enlightenment.

- Leo Tolstoy

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

- Edward Bernays, “Propaganda”