Tag: Government

“There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.”

H. L. Mencken

“It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.”

H. L. Mencken

“The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“No country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.”

Herbert Hoover

“Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.”

George Washington

“Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”

Albert Einstein

“Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here’s one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.”

Jeffrey Tucker

“Most politicians believe in just one thing – winning elections. They’ll say anything to get in office and stay there.”

Harry Browne

“Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.”

I.F. Stone

“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”

Guy de Maupassant

“Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.”

Albert J. Nock

“The more laws, the less justice.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“America rules the world – by force.”

Harry Browne

“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk’.”

Harry Browne

“If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.”

Lewis Goldberg

Guest Post by Simon Black

The year was 1967. Ronald Reagan had just become governor of California. Aretha Franklin was belting out R-E-S-P-E-C-T on the radio. Marxist revolutionary leader Che Guevara was captured and executed in Bolivia.

And a restaurant chain called The White Spot opened its newest location in Denver, Colorado.

It was a popular diner; the White Spot served pancakes and milkshakes to customers for decades, and ownership of the Denver location eventually changed hands when an entrepreneur named Tom Messina bought the diner in 1999.

He changed the name from the White Spot to Tom’s Diner, and he’s been serving Denver customers for the last 20 years.

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“The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.”

Albert J. Nock

“Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask what the government is doing to you.”

David Friedman

“An armed society is a polite society.”

Robert A. Heinlein

“Do not tempt me! For I do not wish to become like the Dark Lord himself. Yet the way of the Ring to my heart is by pity, pity for weakness and the desire of strength to do good. I dare not take it, not even to keep it safe, unused.”

Gandalf the Grey

Guest Post by Simon Black

Here is our weekly roll-up of bizarre and disturbing stories from around the world.

1. Local government seized countless children based on falsified drug test results

For years, the county of Ozark, Alabama hired a private laboratory to analyze paternity and drug tests.

These were pretty critical tests… because the county would rely on those test results to determine whether or not to take someone’s children away from them.

It turns out that lab’s owner, Brandy Murrah, was FALSIFYING those results.

Instead of running a legitimate operation, Murrah pocketed the money, and faked the test results.

Then she forged a doctor’s signature to certify the results.

Continue reading “Local government seized countless children based on falsified drug test results”