“If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.” EvilPoliticsFreedomLibertyMoralViolenceMoralityEthicsCapitalismTradeLibertarianAnarchyFreeTheftCoercionLawsStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismFree MarketsUniversal Ethics Author:Sheldon Richman
“By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.” WarGovernmentPoliticsPeaceFreedomLibertyMilitaryMoralityMurderKillingLibertarianAnarchyCoercionStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapFollowing OrdersUniversal Ethics Author:Sheldon Richman
“Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.” PeopleYearsMeanPersonsSchoolPoliticalPoliticsIndividualSimpleNumbersEducationCasesArmsBearsGunOppositesCreditSentencesDrivenAgendasAmendmentsElegantInabilitySecond AmendmentCorrelationDeteriorationPolitical AgendasAmerican Education Author:Sheldon Richman
“Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'” FeelsPoliticsPoliticianPressurePeril Author:Sheldon Richman
