Meme: “If you can’t trust people with freedom, how can you trust people with power?”
Political Theory
1. Herbert Spencer Recommended reading: Social Statics A polymath, Herbert Spencer was originally known for his writing on biology. He coined the phrase “survival of the fittest,” used to describe the process of natural selection. Spencer rose to prominence by extending the lessons of biological evolution to politics and sociology. […]
7 Lesser-Known Classical Liberal Thinkers
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” – Plato
Plato Quote Take Interest in Government Or Be Ruled By Fools
There is a Rich Man and a Poor Man. The Rich Man makes $1,000 per day. The poor man makes $10 per day. The difference in their income is $990 per day. The Rich Man builds a factory. He gives the poor man a job there. Now the poor man […]
Income Inequality Meme Rich Man Poor Man
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Ron Paul Institute
Source: https://mises.org/ The Mises Institute, founded in 1982, is an educational institution devoted to advancing Austrian economics, freedom, and peace in the classical-liberal tradition. For over 30 years the Mises Institute has provided both scholars and laymen with resources to broaden their understanding of the economic school of thought […]
Ludwig Von Mises Institute
Frederick Douglass quote from his West India Emancipation Speech, 1857: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”
Frederick Douglass on the Limits of Tyrants
Friedrich Hayek Quotepic: “‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
Friedrich Hayek Quotepic
Eric Allie
Eric Allie Big Government Lifeguard
https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/ Author of the INCERTO a philosophical and practical essay on uncertainty (Skin In the Game, Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes), a (so far) 5-volume”investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk,and decision making when we don’t understand the world, expressed in […]
Nassim Taleb’s Fooled By Randomness
https://mises.org/library/audio-video
Mises Media: Audio/Video on Austrian Economics
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Anarcho-Capitalist Meme: Good Ideas Don’t Require Force
Good Ideas Don’t Require Force
“Individual policy preferences exist as a signal of their holder’s intelligence or moral worth – and a challenge to one’s policy preferences gets interpreted as an attack on the holder’s smarts or basic goodness.” – Aaron Ross Powell
Aaron Ross Powell Identity Politics Quote
Edmund Burke Quote Delusional Abroagation: “The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
Edmund Burke Quote Delusional Abrogation
Source: ‘Venezuela Runs Out of Toilet Paper, Acheives True Socialism’ by David Boaz for CATO/FEE In 1990 I went to a Cato Institute conference in what was then still the Soviet Union. We were told to bring our own toilet paper, which was in fact useful advice. Now, […]
Venezuela Runs Out of Toilet Paper
http://c4sif.org/ The Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF) is dedicated to building public awareness of the manner in which laws and policies impede innovation, creativity, communication, learning, knowledge, emulation, and information sharing. We are for property rights, free markets, competition, commerce, cooperation, and the voluntary sharing of knowledge, […]
C4SIF Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom
Source: FreeStateProject.org Do you believe that adults have the right to make their own decisions about their own lives? Do you want to live in a place where adults are treated as adults? Where people take responsibility for their own actions, lives, and dealings with others? Where community is genuine […]
Free State Project: Toward Voluntary Society
Political cartoon: The People Don’t Know Their True Power
Power of the People
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Law & Liberty
Quotepic Niccolo Machiavelli: “A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.”
Trust Armed Citizenry
Liberty Meme: Gay Marriage, Marijuana, Guns, and Bitcoin
Gay Marriage, Marijuana, Guns, and Bitcoin
Thomas Jefferson Quotepic on Government as Servant of the People: “The Federal Government is our Servant, not our Master.”
Government as Servant of the People
Meme: Anything Government Gives You Was Taken From Somebody Else
Creator of Nothing
Friedrich Nietzsche quotepic: “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Nietzsche on the Individual
Quote by Ludwig von Mises: “If one rejects laissez faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.”
Mises on the Role of Government
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Libertarian Book List
“It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises and express good intentions.” – Lawrence Reed
Lawrence Reed on Defenders of the Free Market
Source: IPencilMovie.org
I, Pencil the Movie
Naomi Wolf presents ‘The End of America’ highlighting the similarities between the rise of Naziism in Hitler’s Germany with the bend toward totalitarianism in America.
Naomi Wolf: ‘The End of America’ Revisited
As it turns out, the nature of the physical world favors the free movement of people to self-organize and self-govern without the interference of external command-and-control structures … … politicians routinely chisel into stone thousands of new laws each year on countless promises that they can improve societal conditions. And […]
Chaos Gets A Bad Rap
Thomas Jefferson Quote: “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propogation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
Tyranny of the Treasury
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