Thought for late Friday afternoon, prompted by the need for tax competition: “You cannot run a socialist experiment when there’s an escape hatch”.
Tom Burroughes
tom.burroughes@reuters.com
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January 11th, 2002 | Comments are closed
 President Bush announced today that they have stopped a terrorist organization that has taken millions and millions away from the American people. Yes! The IRS is finished! – Jay Leno January 11th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. – Lord Acton January 10th, 2002 | Comments are closed
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously – Hubert Humphrey Noam Chomsky, please take note, January 9th, 2002 | Comments are closed
…the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. – “On Liberty” by John Stuart Mill January 8th, 2002 | Comments are closed
I hope that if evil days should come upon our own country, and the last army which a collapsing Empire could interpose between London and the invader were dissolving in rout and ruin, that there would be some, even in these modern days, who would not care to accustom themselves to a new order of things and tamely survive the disaster – Winston Churchill January 6th, 2002 | Comments are closed
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. -From “Life In Hell” by Matt Groening January 4th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Be at war with your vices; at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better man – Benjamin Franklin January 3rd, 2002 | Comments are closed
Sic Semper Tyrannis! – attributed to various, including John Wilkes Booth and the assassins of Roman tyrant Julius Caesar January 2nd, 2002 | Comments are closed
January 1st, 2002 | Comments are closed
December 30th, 2001 | Comments are closed
NEGOTIATION (n.): A tactic used when the target is obscured by clouds or smoke. – Unknown [Given the combative posts on Samizdata over the last few days, it just seemed appropriate] December 29th, 2001 | Comments are closed
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