When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
– Frédéric Bastiat
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September 9th, 2004 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
 I am an autodidact economist; that is, I am self-taught. If I see far it is because I am standing on the feet of giants. September 8th, 2004 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
Islamists oppose us not because of what we do, but because of what we are: secular, pluralist and tolerant. September 7th, 2004 | 53 comments - (Comments are closed)
To initiate terrorism is to justify your very own apocalypse, many more Arabs and Chechens are going to die than Americans, Europeans and Russians, because our ability to carry out terrorism is greater than theirs. September 4th, 2004 | 38 comments - (Comments are closed)
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. September 3rd, 2004 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. September 2nd, 2004 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
September 1st, 2004 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. August 31st, 2004 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. August 31st, 2004 | Comments are closed
Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health, no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. August 30th, 2004 | Comments are closed
Time and time again, August 28th, 2004 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one. – H.L. Mencken Which is what is so great about blogs and the blogosphere. Got a view about something? Set up your own ‘press’ and blog it. August 26th, 2004 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
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