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eb91312	Behavior that Christians would never support in any other context suddenly becomes perfectly acceptable, even praiseworthy, simply because the state has declared that a war is under way. (That's what Voltaire meant when he said, "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.")" --			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
bdedddf	Ron Paul is crazy," the guardians of respectable opinion assured us. What they really meant was that Ron Paul defied traditional political categories and advanced positions outside the Clinton-to-Romney continuum. People whose minds have been formed in ideological prison camps for 12 years have learned to confine themselves within an approved range of possibilities. Tax me 35 percent or tax me 40 percent, but don't raise the possibility tha..			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
412707f	a society that hopes to foster both justice and prosperity needs to discourage wealth acquisition via the political means and encourage it through the economic means.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
d8c1a5c	No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is."			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
688c363	We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
a68ac5f	If the federal government is an addict, then the Federal Reserve System is its enabler.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
34291d9	No one forces you to buy a Twinkie. But governments do force you to fight in their wars and pay for their bailouts.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
fc7afd1	Nisbet could find much to disturb a traditional conservative even in the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan: "President Reagan's deepest soul is not Republican-conservative but New Deal-Second World War Democrat. Thus his well noted preference for citing FDR and Kennedy as noble precedents for his actions rather than Coolidge, Hoover, or even Eisenhower. The word 'revolution' springs lightly from his lips, for anything from tax reform to narcotics p..			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
0380071	Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn't know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
768424e	Since the Fed was established in 1913 the dollar has lost 95 percent of its value.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
768d9f3	Was U.S. entry into World War I such an act of genius that criticizing it is necessarily perverse?			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
81c3515	The lingering effects of war can inspire callousness even after the guns have fallen silent. Many of us have seen the notorious clip from 60 Minutes in which Madeleine Albright, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and soon to be U.S. Secretary of State, declared that the price of half a million dead children as a result of the sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s had been "worth it."			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
328daa2	The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
816a6ca	If you want to stop the war machine, you'll have to go after the money machine.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
73d2408	The dollar has lost over 95 percent of its value since the Fed was created.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
337ef75	The greatest gains against poverty in the United States occurred when government was least involved.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
1259c10	The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
91c6c8b	Isaiah] preached to the masses only in the sense that he preached publicly. Anyone who liked might listen; anyone who liked might pass by. He knew that the Remnant would listen; and knowing also that nothing was to be expected of the masses under any circumstances, he made no specific appeal to them, did not accommodate his message to their measure in any way, and did not care two straws whether they heeded it or not. As a modern publisher ..			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
3b9175f	Another example I used in the article, I got from watching the old movie Gandhi. The British - who are basically very moral people - were willing to assault Indians who just wanted to make salt in their own country. The movie dramatizes the scene of British soldiers striking down defenseless people. Why? Why would ordinarily decent human beings do that? Well, they wouldn't, unless they could be convinced that what they were doing was not op..			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
afa8d19	The true theory of our constitution is surely the wisest & best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves, & united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and..			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
5a814d1	the people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
49d4215	Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success a victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
36d961b	society degenerates into a condition of low-intensity civil war, with each pressure group anxious to secure legislation aimed at enriching itself at the expense of the rest of society.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
97a783e	The war was fought to prevent the secession, not to free the slaves. People who took up arms in the South did so because they were being invaded.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
d5c0f2d	Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.		hilarious	Thomas E. Woods Jr.
a7cce55	we should abolish the Fed altogether, since in the view of these economists it is entirely superfluous to a market economy.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
c0002e4	what remotely educated or even half-conscious living being could consider John McCain a fit candidate for anything?			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
43b9296	Most arguments about income inequality are based on static analysis.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
e7406ec	America's poor are better off than much of the European middle class today, and better off than the American middle class of the 1950s.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
43cc32f	We need sweeping, systemic changes, carried out by a real supporter of the free market who sees the whole picture, not trivial tinkering by some empty suit.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
10653b8	state says it is. It will provide services you do not want, will never use, and may even find morally repugnant, and then tell you what you must pay for them.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
a84aef3	The dot-com and housing bubbles can both be explained by artificial credit expansion, say such economists.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
a1c4db8	In the nineteenth century there was no such thing as "retirement," --			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
667b928	Government departments are arranged hierarchically; those at the top are used to issuing orders and expect them to be carried out by their subordinates right down the line. Minow assumed that a cultural institution like television has a similar hierarchical structure, as if television executives could requisition more creative programming the way a bureaucrat orders new pencils or department stationery.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
94141ac	Communism brought out the worst in human nature, and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
2a3493e	As Ludwig von Mises puts it in this seminal book, modern man "must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police."			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
7dbfd68	Reagan has become the Right's Obama: a man whose every action is to be treated as ipso facto brilliant, perhaps even divinely inspired.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
dcaebdc	No oppressive government can survive if it has to use force to get people to obey its commands. What government must do is get the people to buy in, to voluntarily support their own oppressors, or the system will collapse.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
3256b06	The issue is whether the orders are morally acceptable or not, and that question is not answered by anti-intellectual demands of obedience.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
a65f246	As Hayek, Milton Friedman, and so many others pointed out, a state with power, means, and inclination to intervene so heavily in economic affairs is unlikely to stop there. In the process of all this, religion and civil society are crowded out, appreciation for their role languishes, and the groundwork is laid for more restrictions on them in the future.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
ee30748	the Church, in fact, was the matrix that produced the university, the nest whence it took flight." 31"			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
c54c55e	Marx set forth a classic statement of inherent class antagonism on the market			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
04f441f	This is in response to Thatcher's statement that "there's no such thing as society." So these progressives are going to show her! Naturally, they interpret her perfectly defensible statement in the most inane and uncharitable way possible. Why, we'll show her there really is society, by helping our fellow man! But that was exactly her point. There is no such thing as an abstract, disembodied blob called "society." All that exists are indivi..			Thomas E. Woods Jr.
133bddf	The whole system is overseen by the government-created Federal Reserve System, which presides over a system-wide cartel.			Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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