[N]o one’s ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It’s just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.
Power to the people?
Socialists cry ‘power to the people’ and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know they really mean power over people. Power to the state.
Getting back on the road to liberty
I can’t think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be.
The greatest inequality
It is the greatest inequality to try to make unequal things equal.
Tunnel vision
Social doctors … ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view.
Zero-sum socialism
To lift one man up we push another down … trampling on those who are trying to help themselves.
Freedom from parasites
The workingman needs no improvement in his condition except to be freed from the parasites who are living on him.
Selective improvement
Nearly all the schemes for ‘improving the condition of the working man’ involve an elevation of some working men at the expense of other working men.
Producers must have rights
The forgotten man … ought to be first and always remembered … What … becomes of the natural rights of the one whose energies are to be diverted from his own interests?
Stop penalizing the productive
The forgotten man is weighted down with the cost and burden of the schemes for making everyone happy … take some of the burdens off him … It will only be justice for him, and society will greatly gain by it.