Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
– Ayn Rand in “The Fountainhead” (1943)
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… so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. – Voltarine de Cleyre November 19th, 2001 | Comments are closed
 November 15th, 2001 | Comments are closed
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -William Pitt (1783) Sadly we don’t hear British prime ministers echoing those sentiments these days November 14th, 2001 | Comments are closed
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) November 13th, 2001 | Comments are closed
It is a measure of the incoherence of Marxist analysis that fascism is regarded as ‘late capitalism’ when in reality late capitalism, when we get there, will clearly have resulted in libertarianism – Perry de Havilland November 12th, 2001 | Comments are closed
November 11th, 2001 | Comments are closed
Libertarians do not seek chaos but rather a more spontaneous order – Perry de Havilland, said at a ‘Brian’s Friday’ event November 10th, 2001 | Comments are closed
November 9th, 2001 | Comments are closed
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. – Justice Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice,1929 November 8th, 2001 | Comments are closed
The state is a core of malevolence surrounded by a thick cloying crust of incompetence November 7th, 2001 | Comments are closed
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else November 6th, 2001 | Comments are closed
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