QUOTES OF THE DAY 7-20-12

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. Robert Byrne

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed. Ayn Rand

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. Friedrich Hayek

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, and that’s good enough. Edwin Vieira

All of the services now funded by taxation and provided by the government were at one point in the not-so-distant past funded and provided privately. Red Rojas

And the so-called sovereigns, in these different governments, are simply the heads, or chiefs, of different bands of robbers and murderers. Lysander Spooner