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"Classical liberalism regarded those laws best that afforded the least discretionary power to executive authorities, thus avoiding arbitrariness and abuse. The modern state seeks to expand its discretionary power. Everything is to be left to the discretion of officials."
Ludwig von Mises
TU NE CEDE MALIS
"If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun."
-Benjamin Franklin
Ludwig von Mises
TU NE CEDE MALIS
"If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun."
-Benjamin Franklin
About Me:
people become powerless.
If you overvalue possessions,
people begin to steal.
The Master leads
by emptying people's minds
and filling their cores,
by weakening their ambition
and toughening their resolve.
He helps people lose everything
they know, everything they desire,
and creates confusion
in those who think that they know.
Practice not-doing,
and everything will fall into place.
- Lao Tzu
Music:
"Louis is really the tradition, we haven't caught up to it yet. He created our colloquialism. Every musician I know, of worth, in popular music, or jazz music, is stung by Louis Armstrong." - Tony Bennett "The true revolutionary is one that's not apparent. I mean the revolutionary that's waving a gun out in the streets is never effective; the police just arrest him. But the police don't ever know about the guy who smiles & drops a little poison in their coffee. Well...Louis, in that sense, was that sort of revolutionary, a TRUE revolutionary." - Lester Bowie
Books:
Frederic Bastiat, THE LAW - 1850: "The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. - See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime...Then abolish this law without delay - Life, faculties, production—in other words, individuality, liberty, property—this is man...[they] do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. - ...look at the United States. There is no country in the world where the law is kept more within its proper domain: the protection of every person's liberty & property. As a consequence of this, there appears to be no country in the world where the social order rests on a firmer foundation. - Slavery is a violation, by law, of liberty. The protective tariff is a violation, by law, of property. - Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else. - ...the relationship between persons & the legislator appears to be the same as the relationship between the clay & the potter. - Ah, you miserable creatures! You think you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That would be sufficient enough. - ...legislators & do-gooders, reject all systems, and try liberty."
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..but what can a government do, with a man who is not willing publicly to lie with uplifted hand, or who is not willing to send his children to an establishment which he considers bad, or who is not willing to learn to kill people, or is not willing to take part in idolatry, or is not willing to take part in coronations, deputations, and addresses, or who says and writes what he thinks and feel? By prosecuting such a man, government secures for him general sympathy, making him a martyr, and it undermines the foundations on which it is itself built, for in so acting, instead of protecting human rights, it itself infringes them.
But I must explain my meaning. To say that the most effectual means of achieving the ends toward which revolutionists and liberals are striving, is by activity in accord with their consciences, does not mean that people can begin to live conscientiously in order to achieve those ends. To begin to live conscientiously on purpose to achieve any external ends is impossible.
Armies will only be diminished and abolished when people cease to trust governments, and themselves seek salvation from the miseries that oppress them, and seek that safety, not by the complicated and delicate combinations of diplomats, but in the simple fulfillment of that law, binding upon every man, inscribed in all religious teachings, and present in every heart, not to do to others what you wish them not to do to you above all, not to slay your neighbors.