Favorite Quotes...From Ben Franklin Or Whomever...

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"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."​

-Mark Twain
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“Consider the Marxist idea of ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.’ What an incentive for people to minimize their abilities and maximize their needs. Can you imagine a better formula for destroying society?” ​

-Henry Manne
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“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”​

-George Orwell
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“Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.”​

-Benjamin Franklin
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"The great achievements of Western Capitalism have redounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful."​

-Milton Friedman
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"The great achievements of Western Capitalism have redounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful."

-Milton Friedman
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Alas, Milton fails to mention the substantial and perpetual debt that the ordinary person apparently must maintain in order to enjoy those conveniences and amenities.

 

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“Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
Marvin Heemeyer

 

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"If you see someone crying, ask if it's because of their haircut." -Unknown

 

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looking for that quote, not in his "Ultimate Revolution" speech at Berkeley
Aldous Huxley 1962 U.C. Berkeley Speech on “The Ultimate Revolution”

Found it -

"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961

 

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looking for that quote, not in his "Ultimate Revolution" speech at Berkeley
Aldous Huxley 1962 U.C. Berkeley Speech on “The Ultimate Revolution”

Found it -

"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution." Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961

Huxley and Orwell apparently used to disagree on how we embraced our servitude but both agreed we would be slaves under a techno dystopia. Their novels also have turned into prophecy and seem to be instruction manuals for the ruling elites.

 

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Give me control of the money and the rest is irrelevant

 

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Give me control of the money and the rest is irrelevant

 

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"Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people’s plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government."​

-Walter Williams
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"Every step that takes us away from private ownership of the means of production and from the use of money also takes us away from rational economics."​

-Ludwig von Mises
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"Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views."​

-William F. Buckley, Jr.
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My kids are watching a show and some character just said, "I'm a professional. Winning is my job."

I don't know when it will come up, but I'm so saving that for future use.