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Now I want to see the same level of skepticism, suspicion, and mistrust of unchecked and unregulated corporate power.. . . you give it power to do things TO you." - Albert Jay Nock
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Below are some of my favorite quotes regarding the relationship between government power and Liberty:
"Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
"Your government sees you as a milk cow. If things get tough for them, they will treat you like a beef cow." - Doug Casey
"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government." - Milton Friedman
"Liberty and freedom are inversely proportional to government power." - Me
"A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, or by millions, calling themselves a government." - Lysander Spooner
"Governments don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking... They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept it." - George Carlin
Instead, all I see from libertarians is a magical faith that if you just leave them alone and you have blind faith in them, everything magically works for the best.
Who is John Galt? The savior who must be blindly worshipped or He will not grant you not eternal salvation, LOL.