It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there […]
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Big Society quote of the day – Mises
But while the humanitarians indulged in depicting the blessings of this [classical] liberal utopia, they did not realize that new ideologies were on the way to supplant liberalism and to shape a new order arousing antagonisms for which no peaceful solution could be found. They did not see it because […]
Read MoreBig Society quote of the day – Jesus Christ
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his […]
Read MoreBig Society quote of the day – Mises on socialism
The history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has discredited the hopes and the prognostications of the philosophers of the Enlightenment. The peoples did not proceed on the road toward freedom, constitutional government, civil rights, free trade, peace, and good will among nations. Instead the trend is toward totalitarianism, toward […]
Read MoreBig Society quote of the day – Albert Jay Nock
If we look beneath the surface of our public affairs, we can discern one fundamental fact, namely: a great redistribution of power between society and the State. This is the fact that interests the student of civilization. He has only a secondary or derived interest in matters like price-fixing, wage-fixing, […]
Read MoreBig Society quote of the day – Mises, reprise
Economics is not about goods and services; it is about the actions of living men. — Mises, Human Action
Read MoreBig Society quote of the day – C S Lewis
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment […]
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Society is cooperation; it is community in action. — Ludwig von Mises, Socialism
Read MoreBig Society quote of the day – Richard Cobden
Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.
Read MoreBig Society quote of the day – Roche
Meaningful freedom has always implied responsibility. — Roche.
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