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The squeaky wheels

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 22, 2021January 22, 2021Categories demagoguesTags Edmund Burke

The best argument for small government

The United States was supposed to have a limited government because the founders knew government power attracts demagogues and despots as surely as horse manure attracts horseflies.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 16, 2020Categories demagoguesTags Rick Gaber

Beware the cure

Most of the problems of this country are not nearly as bad as the “solutions” — especially the solutions that politicians come up with during election years.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 29, 2020Categories demagoguesTags Thomas Sowell

Helping themselves

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. People with careers as ethnic leaders usually tell their followers what they want to hear.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 20, 2020Categories demagogues, raceTags Thomas Sowell

How demagogues work

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who ‘speak truth to power,’ but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 18, 2020Categories demagoguesTags Thomas Sowell

Trading down

If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 3, 2020May 13, 2020Categories demagogues, libertyTags Thomas Sowell

The pretense of caring

The great inlet by which a color for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 16, 2020Categories demagoguesTags Edmund Burke

Traitors

No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for a man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 16, 2020Categories demagoguesTags George Washington

Don’t be talked out of your liberties

Be not intimidated … nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 21, 2020Categories demagogues, liberty, rightsTags John Adams

Demagogues and bureaucrats

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 19, 2020Categories demagoguesTags Ludwig von Mises

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