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"As
it is apparent to all that a prince is constituted by God to be ruler
of a people,
to defend them from
oppression and violence
and whereas God did not
create the people slaves to their prince,
to obey his commands,
whether right or wrong,
but rather the prince for
the sake of the subjects
to govern them according
to equity, to love and support them
as a father his children
or a shepherd his flock,
and even at the hazard of
life to defend and preserve them.
And when he does not
behave thus, but, on the contrary, oppresses them,
seeking opportunities to
infringe their ancient customs and privileges,
exacting from them slavish
compliance, then he is no longer a prince, but a tyrant,
and the subjects are to
consider him in no other view.
And particularly when this
is done deliberately, unauthorized by the states,
they may not only disallow
his authority,
but legally proceed to the
choice of another prince for their defense."
These are the openings
words of the ''Plakkaat
van Verlatinge (1581)". (English translation pdf)
In this historical document the
Low Countes declare independance and abjure the Spanish
king after long and fruitless negociations about his arbitrary ruling,
excessive taxation and the loss of local autonomy. One century ahead of
the great works
of Hobbes
(1651), John Locke (1689) and Montesquieu
(1748), this document
expresses the spirit of enlightment in the low countries and contains the basic principles of balance of power. The document is
strikingly similar in spirit to the US Declaration or Independance two centuries later.
The
"Plakkaat van Verlatinge" stood
indeed model for
Jefferson's "Declaration or Independance" (1776) as well as of the independence declaration
of
the county Flanders (1790). (see: Designed for the Good of
All )
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Dit is de aanhef tot het "Plakkaat
van Verlatinghe" van 1581'' (pdf)
de onafhankelijkheidsverklaring waarmee
de Nederlanden de
Spaanse koning heeft afgezworen na
lang en vruchteloos onderhandelen over diens
arbitraire
heerschappij, overmatige belastingen en afkalvende lokale
automomie. Een eeuw
vóór de publicaties van Hobbes (1651), John Locke (1689)
en
Montesquieu’s (1748), ademt het document reeds de sfeer van
verlichting. Het 'Plakkaat van
Verlatinge inspireerde zelfs tweehonderd jaar later nog Thomas
Jefferson, en stond het model voor de Amerikaanse Declaration
of Independance (1776) evenals van de
onafhankelijkheidsverklaring van het graafschap Vlaanderen (1790).
(zie ook: Designed for the
Good of All
)
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Citaten
van de meest wijze
denkers:
Adam Smith, Abraham
Lincoln, Voltaire, J.S.Mill, Friedrich
Hayek, Ayn Rand
,
Lord Acton , Bastiat , Ghandi, Ludwig
Von Mises, Milton
Friedman , Rothbard
,
J.M.
Keynes,
Winston
Churchill,
Ronald Reagan, Einstein, etc..
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 Adam
Smith
1723 - 1790
Scottish
moral philosopher and
a pioneering political economist.
"It is not
from the benevolence of the butcher,
the brewer, or the
baker
that we expect our
dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Every
individual necessarily labors
to render the annual revenue of
society as great as he can.
He generally neither intends to promote the
public interest,
nor knows how much he is promoting it.
He intends only
his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases,
led by an
invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention
The real
tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Read main
works here
An inquiry into the Nature and Causes
Of the Wealth of
Nations (1776)
."Het is niet vanwege de
goedheid van de slager, de brouwer of de bakker
dat wij ons eten
verwachten, maar vanwege hun eigenbelang"..
"Een
mens laat zich slechts door eigenbelang leiden,
hij wordt door een
onzichtbare hand geleid iets na te streven
dat buiten zijn
bedoelingen
ligt.
Ook wordt de
samenleving er niet altijd slechter op
wanneer de
mens niet bewust het algemeen belang dient.
door zijn
eigenbelang na te
streven
bevordert hij het
algemeen belang vaak meer
dan wanneer hij
daar bewust naar streeft.
Ik heb nooit veel
resultaten zien bereiken
door mensen die
beweerden
het algemeen
welzijn te willen dienen."
John
Stuart Mill
(1806-1873)
English
phylosopher and economist.
The only
freedom which deserves the name
is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way,
so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs,
or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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.
His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
What ever
crushes individuality is
despotism,
no matter what name it is called.
”The
substitution of paper money for
metallic currency is a national gain:
any further increase
of paper beyond this is but a form of robbery
...
All holders of
currency lose by the depreciation of its value the
exact
equivalent of what
the issuer gains.”
"Het
enige doel waarvoor de mens alleen of samen met anderen gemachtigd is
inbreuk te maken op de vrijheid van zijn medemens is zelfverdediging...
Het enige doel waartoe in een beschaafde samenleving macht mag worden
uitgeoefend tegen iemands wil, is het voorkomen dat een ander schade
wordt toegebracht. Eigenbelang, fysiek of moreel, is geen voldoende
reden... Eenieder is tegenover de samenleving alleen dáár
verantwoording verschuldigd waar het zijn gedrag jegens anderen
betreft. Waar het alleen hemzelf betreft, is de eigen vrijheid
vanzelfsprekend absoluut. Over zichzelf, over zijn eigen lichaam en
geest, is ieder mens zijn eigen meester."
John
Stuart Mill nam het op voor vrijheid
van meningsuiting
en betoogde
in zijn boek "On liberty"
dat het muilkorven van opinies een "peculiar
evil" is.
"Als
de
opinie correct is, worden we
beroofd van de mogelijkheid om de
onwaarheid voor de waarheid in te ruilen; en als het onjuist is wordt
ons een dieper begrip van de waarheid in zijn "botsing met onwaarheid"
ontnomen. Als we alleen één kant van de zaak kennen,
kennen we
eigenlijk niet eens dat: het wordt zwak, geleerd door op te zeggen,
onuitgedaagd, een bleke en levenloze waarheid".
 Friedrich
August
von Hayek
1899 -
1992 Austrian-British
economist
and political philosopher
A claim for equality
of material position
can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
'Emergencies' have
always been the
pretext
on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
We must face the
fact that the preservation of individual freedom
is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive
justice.
Even the striving
for
equality by means of a directed economy
can result only in an
officially enforced inequality
- an authoritarian determination of the
status of each individual
in the new hierarchical order.
It
seems to me that
socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics
merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral
questions
about which science cannot decide.
 Ayn
Rand
1905 – 1982 Russian-born
American novelist
and philosopher
The
smallest minority on earth is the individual.
Those who deny individual rights
cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
"Every
major horror of history
was committed in the name of an altruistic motive."
There
is no difference between communism and socialism,
except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end:
communism proposes to enslave men by force,
socialism -- by vote.
It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
A
society that robs an individual of the product of his effort …
is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob
held together by institutionalized gang violence.
America's
abundance was not created
by public sacrifices to the common
good,
but by the productive genius of free men
who pursued their own personal
interests
and the making of their own private fortunes."
The
man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
Statism
survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
The
government's only proper job is to protect individual rights
against violence by force or fraud … t
o protect men from foreign
invaders …
to settle disputes among men according to objective laws …
The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this
issue
and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.
We
are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion:
the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases,
while the citizens may act only by permission;
which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history,
the stage of rule by brute force.
A
government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights:
it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally
disarmed victims.
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.
The
question isn't who is going to let me;
it's who is going to stop me.
Achieving
life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
"Socialisme
is de doctrine dat een mens geen recht heeft om voor zichzelf te leven,
dat zijn leven en zijn werk niet aan hem behoren maar aan de
maatschappij,
dat zijn dienstbaarheid aan de maatschappij de enige
rechtvaardiging is voor zijn bestaan
en dat de maatschappij zich van
hem mag ontdoen
op welke manier het wenst ten gunste van wat men als
het eigen tribale, collectieve belang ziet."
"De
kleinste
minderheid is het individu.
Wie de rechten van
het
individu niet respecteert
mag niet beweren dat
hij opkomt voor de
rechten van minderheden"
"Er
is geen verschil
tussen communisme en socialisme,
behalve in de
middelen om hetzelfde uiteindelijke resultaat te bereiken:
communisme
wil mensen tot slaaf maken via geweld,
socialisme via het
stemhokje.
Het is slechts het
verschil tussen moord en zelfmoord".
"De
vraag is niet of
wij slaaf zijn voor een 'goed' doel of voor een
'slecht' doel.
De vraag is niet dictatuur door een goede bende of door
een slechte bende.
De vraag is vrijheid of dictatuur."
"Een
samenleving die
een individu berooft van de vruchten van zijn
arbeid
is strikt genomen geen samenleving, maar een roofbende
die
bijeengehouden wordt door geinstitutionaliseerde bendewetten".
"De welvaart in
Amerika bestaat niet dankzij de collectieve opoffering
aan 'het
gemeenschappelijke goed'
maar dankzij de
productieve
genialiteit van vrije mensen"
Lord
Acton
1834
– 1902 English
historian
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end.
It is itself the highest political end.
Power
tends to corrupt,
and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The
danger is not that a particular class
is unfit to govern.
Every class is unfit
to govern.
"Macht
corrumpeert,
en absolute macht
corrumpeert absoluut"
"Vrijheid
is niet een middel
naar een hoger politiek doel.
Het is het hoogste politieke doel"
 Ludwig von Mises
1881 – 1973 notable
Austrian School economist
Government
cannot make man richer,
but it can make him poorer
In the
long run even the most
despotic governments
with all their
brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas.
Eventually the ideology
that has won the support of the majority will prevail
and cut the
ground from under the tyrant's feet.
Then the oppressed many will rise
in rebellion and overthrow their masters
Overheden kunnen
burgers niet rijker maken
maar wel armer.
Zij
die vragen om meer
overheidsingrijpen
vragen uiteindelijk om meer dwang en minder vrijheid.
Een
vrije pers kan alleen bestaan bij een
privaat beheer
over de middelen van productie.
Als
de
geschiedenis ons iets kan leren
is het wel dat particulier eigendom
onlosmakelijk verbonden is met beschaving.
 Frederique
Bastiat
1801
-
1850 French
classical liberal theorist, political economist,
and
member of the French assembly.
Each of us
has a natural right, from God,
to defend his
person, his liberty, and his property.
Government
is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors
to live at the expense of everybody else.
The
politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing
the very thing that caused the evil in the first place:
legal plunder.
Everyone
wants to live at the expense of the State.
They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone.
"When
goods do not cross borders, soldiers will."
"De
staat is een enorm kunstmatig instituut
via
welke iedereen probeert te leven op andermans kosten"
Bastiat
is
het meest bekend om zijn essay dat hij schreef aan het parlement ten
gunste van de Franse kaarsenproducenten. Zijn klacht is tegen de
'ruinerende concurrentie van een buitenlandse rivaal die onder zulke
superieure omstandigheden licht produceert dat hij de binnenlandse
markt ermee overstroomt tegen ongelooflijk lage prijzen.' De rivaal is
de zon. De remedie die hij voorstelt is het verplicht sluiten van alle
ramen. Dat, stelt hij, terwijl hij alle standaard protectionistische
argumenten gebruikt, zal niet alleen de kaarsindustrie ten goede komen
maar ook alle industrieën die daaraan leveren. Als een overtuigend
argument voor vrije handel kan dit essay moeilijk overtroffen worden. "
 Milton
Friedman
1912 –
2006. American
Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual.
If
you put the federal government in
charge
of the Sahara Desert,
in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand
Underlying
most arguments against the free market
is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
We have a
system that increasingly t
axes work and subsidizes non-work.
I am favor
of cutting taxes under
any circumstances
and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
The black
market was a way of getting around government controls.
It was a way of enabling the free market to work.
It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
Nobody
spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.
Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own.
So if you want efficiency and effectiveness,
if you want knowledge to be properly utilized,
you have to do it through the means of private property.
The
economic miracle that has been the United States
was not produced
by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels
or by
centralized economic planning.
It was produced by private enterprises
in a profit-and-loss system.
And losses were at least as important in
weeding out failures,
as profits in fostering successes.
Let government
succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black
teenagers,
is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.
Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws.
We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most,
if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books
Fundamentally,
there are only two ways of coordinating the economic
activities of millions.
One is central
direction involving the use of coercion
– the technique of
the army and of the modern totalitarian state.
The other is
voluntary cooperation of individuals
– the technique of
the marketplace.
Columbus did not seek a new route to
the Indies
in response to a majority directive.
Milton Friedman on
Greed in this You tube.
"There Ain't No Such Thing As
A Free Lunch."
Wordt ten
onrechte toegeschreven aan Friedman.
Schijnt door
science-fictionschrijver Robert Heinlein
bedacht te zijn hoewel anderen
beweren dat
de uitdrukking al in de 19e eeuw werd gebruikt.
"Een
samenleving die gelijkheid
prefereert
boven vrijheid zal geen van beiden bereiken"
A
society
that puts equality ahead of freedom
will end up with neither equality nor freedom
"Niets
is
zo permanent
als een tijdelijk overheidsprogramma"
"Het is overduidelijk dat vrije immigratie
niet samen kan gaan met een verzorgingsstaat"
"Inflatie
is de enige vorm van
belasting
die opgelegd kan worden zonder wetgeving."
"We
hebben een systeem dat in
toenemende mate
werk belast en inactiviteit subsidieert."
"Neem nou sociale zekerheid. De jongeren hebben
altijd bijgedragen om de ouderen te steunen.
Vroeger hielpen de jongeren de ouderen uit plichtsbesef en een gevoel
van liefde.
Zij dragen nu bij aan de steun van iemands anders ouders vanwege dwang
of angst.
De vrijwillige steun versterkte de familiebanden; de gedwongen steun
verzwakte deze."
Milton
Friedman works on Money and
more here
 Murray
Rothbard
1926 – 1995. Influential
American economist, historian and natural law theorist
"Het is niet
utopisch om te werken
aan een samenleving
zonder
belastingen;
het is utopisch om
te denken
dat de macht om
belasting te
heffen
niet misbruikt zal
worden zodra die verleend is."
Onbekende
Belastingsplichtige
Een boete is een
belasting voor een fout;
een belasting is een
boete voor succes.
Arthur
Godfrey
“I
am proud to be paying taxes in the
United States.
The only thing is – I could be just as proud for half the money.”
 Winston
Churchill
1874 –
1965. British
Prime Minister 1940-1945 and 1951- 1955
The
inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
"Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot,
others as a cow to be milked,
but few are those who see it
as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon."
The man
who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart,
but if he is
still a socialist at forty he has no head”
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It
is a socialist idea that making
profits
is a vice;
I consider the real
vice is making losses.
"De inherente
ondeugd van
kapitalisme
is de ongelijke
verdeling van
zegeningen,
de inherente deugd
van socialisme
is de gelijke
verdeling
van ellende"
"Het is
een socialistisch idee dat winst
maken een ondeugd is;
volgens mij is het maken van verlies de werkelijke ondeugd"
"Als
een man geen socialist is
tegen de tijd dat
hij 20 is, heeft hij geen hart.
Als hij nog steeds
socialist is
tegen de tijd dat
hij 40 is, heeft hij geen hersens"
John
Maynard Keynes
1883
- 1946 Interverntionist economist, Inspirator
of socialist economic politicy.
Contested by the Austrian school.
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the
capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process
of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an
important part of the wealth of their citizens.
By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate
arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually
enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of
riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of
the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings
windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or
desires, become 'profiteers,' who are the object of the hatred of the
bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of
the proletariat.
As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates
wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and
creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so
utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of
wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of
overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side
of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million
is able to diagnose. In the latter stages of the war all the
belligerent governments practised, from necessity or incompetence, what
a Bolshevist might have done from design. Even now, when the war is
over, most of them continue out of weakness the same malpractices...
After
70 years Keynesian ecomonic Policy in Europe
the
debt rating agency Standards
& Poors
paraphrased Keynes' most famous quote
"In
the long run we are all dead."
as
"In
the long run we are all Debt"
 Voltaire
(1694 -
1778) French
Enlightenment
writer, essayist and philosopher
known for his
defense of civil liberties,
I may not
agree with what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
"It is
dangerous to
be right
when the government
is wrong"
Ik
kan uw
mening nog zo abject vinden,
maar ik zal uw recht
verdedigen om die te uiten.
Het is gevaarlijk juist te zijn
wanneer de
overheid fout zit.
 Abraham
Lincoln.
1809 – 1865. 16th (Republican) President of the United States.
Outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery.
You cannot bring about
prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot
strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help
small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the
wage-earner by tearing down the wage-payer.
You cannot further
the brotherhood of mankind by encouraging class
hatred.
You cannot help the
poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot establish
sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot keep out
of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build
character and courage by taking away man's initiative.
You cannot help man
permanently by doing for them
what they could do
and should do for themselves.
Ronald Reagan
1911 -
2004
Inspirator of Reaganomics
40th (Republican) President of the United States (1981–1989)
.... man is
not free unless government is limited.
There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable
as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”
Government
does not tax to get the money it needs;
government always finds a need for the money it gets.
Government's
view of the economy
could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Government does
not solve problems;
it subsidizes them.
...government is not the solution to our problem;
government is the problem.
Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.
In some dim
beginning, man
created the institution of government
as a convenience for himself.
And, ever since that time,
government has been doing its best to become
an inconvenience.
Nations
crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government
those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself..
I think
the best possible social program is a job.
Sheikh Yamani
1930
- .... Saudi Arabia's
Minister of Oil and
minister in OPEC for
25 years.
’The
Stone Age
didn’t end for lack of stone,
and the oil age will
end long before the world runs out of oil.
"De Steentijd kwam
niet tot een einde vanwege een gebrek aan stenen
en
het olietijdperk zal niet eindigen vanwege een gebrek aan olie."
 H.L.
Mencken
1880 – 1956
journalist,
satirist, social critic and freethinker.
Democracy
is a pathetic belief
in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance
Every
election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
When
a new source of taxation is found it never means,
in practice, that the old source is abandoned.
It merely means that the politicians have
two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
I believe
in only one thing: liberty;
but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
I believe
that all government is evil,
and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
If a
politician found he had cannibals among his constituents,
he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
It doesn't
take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined
leaders and a sound cause.
It is not
materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but
idealism.
Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too
seriously.
Morality
is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
Most
people want security in this world, not liberty.
The common
argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the
poor.
The
most dangerous man to any
government
is the man who is able to think things out for himself,
without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.
Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion
that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and
intolerable …
"Het
probleem met het verdedigen van menselijke vrijheid
is dat je de meeste
tijd besteedt aan het verdedigen
van deugnieten en
schurken.
Want het
is tegen hen dat onderdrukkende wetten
in eerste instantie
gericht
zijn,
en onderdrukking
moet bij het begin gestopt worden
wil het
sowieso gestopt worden.
"Er
is ongetwijfeld vooruitgang.
De gemiddelde Amerikaan betaalt
nu
twee maal zoveel belasting
als hij vroeger in salaris ontving".
"Mensen
in deze wereld
willen geen rechten maar privileges".
What
men value in this world
is not rights but privileges.
"Democratie
is een pathetisch geloof
in de
collectieve wijsheid van individuele onwetendheid"
"Puritanisme.
De gekmakende angst dat
iemand,
ergens op aarde gelukkig zou zijn"
"De
wil om de mensheid te redden is vrijwel
altijd een voorwendsel voor de wil over anderen te regeren"
"De
overheid is een handelaar in gestolen
goederen,
en elke verkiezing
is een soort van vooruitgeschoven veiling van die goederen"
Albert
Einstein
1879 – 1955
Physicist known for his theory of relativity
and mass-energy equivalence.
Everything
that is really great and inspiring is created by the
individual who can labor in freedom.
Force
always attracts men of low morality.
“The
hardest thing in the world to understand
is the income tax.”
Alles dat
werkelijk groots en inspirerend is,
is gecreeerd door
een individu dat kon
werken in
vrijheid.
Het moeilijste ter wereld om te
verstaan in
inkomstenbelasting.
 Gandhi
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty
when the State becomes lawless or,
which is the same thing, corrupt
"Burgerlijke
ongehoorzaamheid is een heilige plicht
wanneer de Staat wetteloos wordt, of corrupt
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Tacitus
The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.
Barry Goldwater
Extremism
in the defense of liberty is no
vice.
Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Calvin
Coolidge
It is much more
important to kill bad bills
than to pass good ones.
Leo
Tolstoy
Everyone thinks about
changing the world,
but no one thinks about changing himself.
Plato
One of the
penalties for refusing to
participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
George
Bernard
Shaw
A government
which robs Peter to pay Paul,
can always count on
the support of Paul.
David
Friedman
"De functie van de
politiek is het reduceren
van de diversiteit
van
individuele doelen
tot een stelsel
gemeenschappelijke doelen."
David Friedman is
de zoon van Nobelprijswinnaar
Milton Friedman.
David is de
auteur van het interessante en zeer
leesbare boek
"The machinery of
Freedom, Guide to Radical Capitalism".
Op zijn
homepage publiceerde hij
enkele hoofdstukken daaruit.
Joe Sobran
"Andermans
geld wensen wordt tegenwoordig 'behoefte' genoemd,
de wens
om je eigen geld te houden wordt 'egoïstisch' genoemd
en het heet
'compassie' wanneer politici de overdracht regelen."
"Als een politicus
worstelt met zijn geweten wint hij meestal."
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