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 […]
“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
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.”
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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, […]
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. […]
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.”
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/ The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is a project of Dr. Paul’s Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (F.R.E.E.), founded in the 1970s as an educational organization. The Institute continues and expands Dr. Paul’s lifetime of public advocacy for a peaceful foreign policy and the protection of […]
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 […]
“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
Frederick Douglass quote from his West India Emancipation Speech, 1857: “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.