COMMON SENSE; Revisited
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Frederic Bastiat
July 07, 2009 at 07:03 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Frederic Bastiat, The Law (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, 1850) p. 59.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.
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Edward Bernays
July 07, 2009 at 07:01 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Stuart Ewenm PR!: A Social History of Spin (Basic Books, 1998) p. 34, 35.The duty of the higher strata of society — the cultivated, the learned, the expert, the intellectual — is therefore clear. They must inject moral and spiritual motives into public opinion.
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Edward Bernays
July 07, 2009 at 06:56 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Edward L. Bernays, Propoganda (1928) p. 47, 48.If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, the elite could control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it…just as the motorist can regulate the speed of his car by manipulating the flow of gasoline.
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Noah Webster
July 07, 2009 at 06:54 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Jean Lipman-Bluman, The Allure of Toxic Leaders (Sourcebooks, Inc., 2006) p. 103.Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority…There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
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Friedrich August von Hayek
July 07, 2009 at 06:46 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
F.A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty, vol. 3 (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979) p. 124.‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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Friedrich August von Hayek
July 07, 2009 at 06:38 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
F.A. Hayek, A Free-Market Monetary System and The Pretense of Knowledge (Ludwig von Mises Institute, Alabama, 1974) p. 4.A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
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John Locke
July 07, 2009 at 06:33 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Michael L. Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory (Hackett Publishing, 2005) p. 742.Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence.
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Lord Chesterfield
July 07, 2009 at 06:29 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, The Works of Lord Chesterfield (Harper and brother publishers, New York, 1859) p. 19Arbitrary power…must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were, step by step, lest the people should see it approach.
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John Naisbitt
July 07, 2009 at 06:27 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
John Naisbitt, Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives (1980)America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities…My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.
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George Washington
July 07, 2009 at 06:21 pm by COMMON SENSE; RevisitedQuote under:
Andy Jones, Gerald L. Kovacich, Perry G. Luzwick, Global Information Warfare (CRC Press, 2002) p. 295.Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
