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“The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.”

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Wavy Gravy, born David Paul Gravy, is an American entertainer known for his unique performance style and humor. He is a significant figure in the 1960s American counterculture movement. more

“I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.”

Men Needs Believe Heart Helping Law Lying Dies Liberty Wonder Too Much Men And Women Constitution Court Believe In Me False Hope

Author:Learned Hand

“Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.”

“...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that makes progress possible, lies in unification. For where unification has been able to establish unity of ideas it has usually ended in uniformity, paralysing the growth of new ideas. And where the unification has merely brought about an artificial or imposed unity, its irksomeness has led through discord to disruption.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.”

Evil Politics Liberty Revolution Libertarian Tyranny Tyrants Libertarianism

Book:Castilian Days

Source: Castilian Days

“...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.”

Ends Individual Liberty Cases Ignorance Depends Achievement Universal Factors Recognition Inevitable Welfare Great Men Individual Freedom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.”

Wells Wisdom Political Courses Individual Liberty Theory Assuming Ignorant Wisest Political Theory

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.”

Important Liberty Economics Property Libertarian Private Property Property Rights Road To Serfdom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.”

Thinking Humans Made Government Faith Individual Belief Decision Liberty Groups Ultimate Accepted Disappearance Human Wisdom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.”

Men Justice Liberty Ought Concepts Sake Tyranny Clarity Treatment Deliberate Confined Coercion

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.”

Way Remember Bits Waiting Enjoy Singing Guitar Remember When Chores Guitar Playing

Author:Eric Clapton

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