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Week of August 19, 2019
“Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man.” -Adam Smith, 18th century economist & Enlightenment philosopher
Venezuela's Health Care System Is in Shambles, but Markets Are Already Responding | Byron Carson
Venezuelan health care has flatlined and is almost non-existent under a government that continues to centrally plan its economic affairs. Approximately 45 percent of hospitals reported robberies and shootings. Fortunately, some Venezuelans are finding alternative methods for acquiring their desired goods and services.
Week of August 12, 2019
“The philosophies of perpetual grievance that dominate campus discourse insist that we must look at our cultural heritage as the sum total of its faults, reducing every moment of our history to a Hegelian relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed.” - Nate Hochman
“The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance” -Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican Presidential nominee
“The Left segregates us into (oppressed vs oppressor) groups and turned us against one another … then the government is supposed to impose equality and justice on us. This is what Leftism means: more government, more top-down (control), less individuality, less community. Leftism is a form of slavery.”
Week of August 5, 2019
"Multiculturalism and Political Correctness are different sides of the same coin. Multiculturalism is the side where we look for the victims. Political Correctness is the side where we find the victimizers.” -Peter Thiel, American Entrepreneur
“Conservativism [the right] wants small government, so that individual liberty can flourish. The left wants the resources of the individual and industry in the service of a centralized state.” – Dinesh D’Sousa, author and film maker
Week of July 29, 2019
“The moral issue with the state is that it involves using man as a means for the ends of others instead of regarding each man as an end in himself.” - 18th Century Philosopher Emmanuel Kant
School Bans Designer Coats in Order to "Poverty Proof" Campus | Brittany Hunter
Winter is coming, and colder temperatures mean that our coats and scarves have been pulled from their summer resting places and put to good use once more. But if you're a parent in the United Kingdom, you might want to think twice before you send your kids off to school in their favorite winter coats.
My Campaign to Raise the Voting Age Got Me Shadowbanned on Twitter | J.K. Baltzersen
Are social justice warriors at Twitter afraid of my movement to raise the voting age? I debuted as a FEE writer on the first Sunday of March-expressing the contrarian position that the voting age should be raised. I am not alone in my desire to go in that direction.
Week of July 22, 2019
"(It's not) government’s function to make war on people over their personal, private, and peaceful choices. As long as we do no harm to others, each of us possesses an inherent, natural right to our own lives and property—and that includes our bodies." - Lawrence W Reed
Week of July 15, 2019
"The New Deal, was a “political racket,” a “series of stupendous bogus miracles,” with its “constant appeals to class envy and hatred,” treating government as “a milch cow with 125 million teats. And, I might add, it didn’t cure the Great Depression; it prolonged it by at least seven years." - H.L. Mencken
"If you have confidence that you are right you never seek to silence your opponent." - Anonymous
Week of July 8, 2019
"The Constitution was crafted as a contract between the American government & its people which promised to uphold individual liberty & rights. The Left argue that the constitution is a living document that can be adjusted over time, but as is the case for any contract, the terms and content cannot be arbitrarily changed by the whims of those wishing to do so." - Pastpatriot
“If the Government takes into its hands that which the man ought to do for himself it will inflict upon him greater mischiefs than all the benefits he will have received or all the advantages that would accrue from them.” - William Ewart Gladstone, 19th century British Prime Minister
Week of July 1, 2019
"There is just one life for each of us: our own." - Euripedes, 4th century Greek Playwright
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers (government officials) are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
“Government cannot satisfy one party without adding to the labor of the others...(it) is the great fiction through which everyone lives at the expense of everyone else.”
“Life, liberty, and property 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.”
- Frederic Bastiat, French Political philosopher & economist
“Government cannot satisfy one party without adding to the labor of the others...(it) is the great fiction through which everyone lives at the expense of everyone else.”
“Life, liberty, and property 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.”
- Frederic Bastiat, French Political philosopher & economist
Why It Must Be the People Who Preserve the Flame of Liberty | Barry Brownstein
Virtue begins when we want the same freedom for others that we want for ourselves. If we love liberty, we "have a conviction that each individual is created equal to all others and that he has the same unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Week of June 24, 2019
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away (through government interventions), for expedients, and by parts.” - Edmund Burke, 18th century Enlightenment philosopher
“The rights of individuals ought to be the primary object of all government." - Mercy Owens Warren, pre-revolutionary War female advocate for individual liberty
"(T)he “invisible hand” of free prices, competitive markets, and self-interest (properly understood) yields far more economic good for society than the “iron fist” of rulers and their bureaucracies."
"Ideas really do matter. They can change the world."
- Lawrence Reed summarizing Adam Smith’s core idea of economic liberty, president for the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
"Ideas really do matter. They can change the world."
- Lawrence Reed summarizing Adam Smith’s core idea of economic liberty, president for the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
