It is not laissez-faire that has failed. That would be an ill day for men. What has failed is the courage to see what is true and speak it to the people, to point to the true remedies.
Category: truth
Truth through experience
In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Ye shall know the truth
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Party above truth
A true party-man hates and despises candour.
Give ’em hell
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.
A radical
A radical is one who speaks the truth.
Several by Sobran
Today’s Washington is about as attentive to the Tenth Amendment as the Unitarian Church is to the Book of Revelation.
Continue reading “Several by Sobran”Preserving respect and esteem
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.
Free press
The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.
Reject appeals to authority
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth … It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.