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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Under free market conditions everyone benefits who is party to an exchange. It ought to be remembered that it cannot be any other way when all transactions are voluntary. Of course, there have been many occasions when all of us have regretted a particular exchange, either because we had insufficient foresight, acted on impulse, or an unexpected change to our finances altered our preferences, etc. But markets exist because of human imperfections, not despite them. If humans had perfect foresight markets would literally disappear.

Kristus har satt oss fri. Se da til at dere forblir frie, og la dere ikke binde igjen. Lover og seremonier blir jo rene slavelenker.

Hasten med å redde verden er nesten altid en falsk fasade for trangen til å regjere.

Den virkelige faren er når friheten småspises bort, av små hensiktsmessigheter.

Du vil aldri forstå byråkratier før du forstår at for byråkrater er saksgangen alt og resultatet ingenting.

Kapitalismen skulle ikke fordømmes, siden vi ikke har hatt kapitalisme.

Statens syn på økonomien kan oppsummeres med følgende denne korte formuleringen: Hvis den utvikler seg, beskatt den. Hvis den fortsetter å utvikle seg, reguler den. Og hvis den slutter å utvikle seg, subsidier den.

U-hjelp kan defineres som overføring fra fattige folk i rike land til rike folk i fattige land.

Den store forskjellen på liberalismen og sosialismen er at mens liberalister vil tolerere forekomsten av sosialistisk organiserte fellesskap, finner sosialistene liberalistiske fellesskap utålelig.

Frihet er ikke verdt å ha hvis den ikke innbefatter friheten til å feile.

Den som ikke nyter ensomhet vil ikke elske frihet.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.

The violence and thuggery of their demonstrations, their hysterical screaming down of debate and dissent, their mindless mass protests which are meant to intimidate the community into submission instead of debating the issues - all this is perfectly consistent with the society they seek to create: A society of state plunder and coercion. A society that undermines creativity, individualism, human happiness, technology. A stagnant, boring world of mindless slaves.

The Fascist Left have turned the Nanny State into the Bully State. There is no limit to their intolerance in the name of tolerance.

accurately describes Political Correctness. Page 117:

“The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that they are really the same as those which they, or at least the best among them, have always held, but which were not properly understood or recognised before. (…) The most efficient technique to this end is to use the old words but change their meaning. Few traits of totalitarian regimes are at the same time so confusing to the superficial observer and yet so characteristic of the whole intellectual climate as the complete perversion of language, the change of the meaning of words by which he ideals of the new regimes are expressed. (…) Gradually, as this process continues, the whole language becomes despoiled, words become empty shells deprived of any definite meaning, as capable of denoting one thing as its opposite and used solely for the emotional associations which still adhere to them.”

Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny ‘failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.’ In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

Political tags-such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth-are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation... Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others... he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of resistance

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.