“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” – From Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol
Month: October 2021
The Right To Be Left Alone
“The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.” – Louis D. Brandeis
And Still They Continue to Lie
“We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
When Plunder Becomes a Way of Life
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” – Frederic Bastiat
A New Type of State
“Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureaucracy, no police, no standing army.”