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  1. Frederic Bastiat

    July 07, 2009 at 07:03 pm by COMMON SENSE; Revisited

    God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations! And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

    Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1850) p. 59.
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  2. William J. H. Boetcker

    July 07, 2009 at 07:39 pm by COMMON SENSE; Revisited
    You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
    William J. H Boetcker, The Ten Cannots (1916)
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  3. Frederic Bastiat

    July 07, 2009 at 07:42 pm by COMMON SENSE; Revisited
    The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. 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…If such a law is not abolished immediately, it will spread: multiply and develop into a system.
    Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1850) p. 13, 14.
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  4. Restore the Republic

    July 15, 2009 at 03:46 pm by COMMON SENSE; Revisited
    A great site for keeping active in the Ron Paul movement. It has a lot of good information and utilities to keep in touch with people.
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  5. Ludwig von Mises Institute

    July 15, 2009 at 03:47 pm by COMMON SENSE; Revisited
    One of the best resources for Austrian Economics. It has a huge amount of free books and articles. If the subject of economics intrigues you, the is the best place to be.
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  6. Clyde Cleveland's Speech at END THE FED Chicago

    July 07, 2009 at 04:10 pm by COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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  7. John Adams

    July 07, 2009 at 04:34 pm by COMMON SENSE; Revisited

    Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all His laws.

    Reinhold Niebuhr, Andrew J. (INT) Bacevich, The Irony of American History (University of Chicago Press, 2008) p. 21.
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  8. Thomas Paine

    July 07, 2009 at 04:50 pm by COMMON SENSE; Revisited

    Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.

    Thomas Paine, Common Sense (R. Bell, Philadelphia, 1776) Introduction.
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  9. Frederic Bastiat

    July 07, 2009 at 04:56 pm by COMMON SENSE; Revisited

    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 beforhand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

    Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1850) p. 2.
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  10. James Thomson

    July 07, 2009 at 06:03 pm by COMMON SENSE; Revisited

    Man knows no master save HEAVEN, Or those whom Choice and common Good ordain.

    Thomas Paine, Common Sense (R. Bell, Philadelphia, 1776) Front Cover..
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