Voices of Liberty @VoLSubstack
Spreading the ideas of freedom through the words of its greatest defenders 💪 Follow Voices of Liberty on Substack for context and analysis 🗽 substack.com/@voicesofliber… Substack 👉 Joined December 2022-
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“Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish. Too much handling will spoil it.” — Lao Tzu
“Most people who read ‘The Communist Manifesto’ probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of ‘the workers.’” — Thomas Sowell
“Beneath the rhetoric of diversity, democracy and tolerance that they so often preach, what truly lies is their blatant desire to eliminate dissent, criticism and ultimately freedom.” — Javier Milei
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive … Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C. S. Lewis
“It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.” — Murray Rothbard
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” — Thomas Paine
Read the context and analysis of this quote—and many others—on the Voices of Liberty Substack. voicesofliberty.substack.com/p/quote-of-the…
Ludwig von Mises was born 145 years ago today. Here’s what the Austrian economist had to say about socialism: “The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” — Adam Smith
“The Soviet Union has cured most people of the socialist illusion. The great socialist experiment was a disaster, economically and socially.” — Roger Scruton
Milton Friedman: “The problem with government is the absence of any mechanism for recognizing errors. What the private system abounds in is survival of the fittest.” “What the governmental system abounds in is expansion of the mistakes. There is no mechanism for eliminating governmental agencies which are no longer needed or have behaved perversely.” x.com/MiltonFriedman…
“The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.” — Walter Williams
“Communism will fail because what it attempts is against human nature. No man will provide me with food and other necessities of life unless he is a gainer by it in some way.” — Calvin Coolidge
A proportional tax system is consistent with equality before the law: everyone is subject to the same tax rate, regardless of income, occupation, or social status. By contrast, “fair share” can always be redefined. That very arbitrariness makes the phrase politically useful: politicians can campaign on it, and activists can use it to mobilize resentment against whichever group is not “paying enough.”
“Most people who want to redistribute wealth ... just want ‘the rich’ to pay their undefined ‘fair share’ of taxes. This ‘fair share’ must remain undefined because all it really means is ‘more.’” — Thomas Sowell
“The concept of ‘social justice’ has been the trojan horse through which totalitarianism has entered.” — F. A. Hayek
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” — Winston Churchill
“Socialists don’t like people to do things for themselves. Socialists like to get people dependent on the state. You never build a great society that way.” — Margaret Thatcher
“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy.” — Milton Friedman
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