‘I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.‘ – Halton Arp [Emphasis in original.] (Not Seeing What’s Not Believed) ..they lost any sense of …
‘The graveyards are full of indispensable men.’ – DeGaulle ‘The great turning point of American foreign policy came in the early 1890s, during the second Cleveland administration. It was then that the United States turned sharply and permanently from a foreign policy of peace and nonintervention to an aggressive program of economic and political expansion …
‘The State jealously guards the power over Society which it has acquired during a climate of fear .. the State (which was feared and despised in 1789) .. the “protective” service rendered by the State is paid for not only with taxes but also with subservience. Society is much poorer for it.’ – Frank Chodorov, …
‘O Liberty! we have seen thee hunted from country to country, crushed by conquest, groaning under slavery, insulted in courts, banished from schools, laughed at in saloons, misunderstood in workshops, denounced in churches. It seems thou shouldst find in thought an inviolable refuge. But if thou art to surrender in this thy last asylum, what …
‘Economics deals with society’s fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.’ – Ludwig von Mises, Human Action ‘In the early 1920s, Mises predicted that the newly organized Soviet Union had set up an unviable economic system that would not be able to survive. …