Category: Thought

The advantages which freedom brings are only shown by the lapse of time; and it is always easy to mistake the cause in which they originate.

[I]f the minimum wage is such a wonderful anti-poverty measure, and can have no unemployment-raising effects, why are you such pikers? Why you are helping the working poor by such piddling amounts? Why stop at $4.55 an hour? Why not $10 an hour? $100? $1,000?
It is obvious that the minimum wage advocates do not pursue their own logic, because if they push it to such heights, virtually the entire labor force will be disemployed. In short, you can have as much unemployment as you want, simply by pushing the legally minimum wage high enough.

Murray N. Rothbard, Making Economic Sense (1995).

Men cannot be cured of the love of riches; but they may be persuaded to enrich themselves by none but honest means.

I don’t think they should take my credential into account. I think that people should be able to express their views freely in society whoever they are, and there’s actually a lot of people who are not scientists who have very insightful thoughts about the pandemic. And one of the principles of public health (many of which have been thrown out the window during this year) . . . is that you have to listen to the public. They’re the ones who are living through the consequences of the lockdown. . . .

Martin Kulldorff, Professor of Medicine, Harvard University, in conversation with Oksana Boyko on the RT program “Worlds Apart.” Kulldorff was one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration.

There are words like Freedom
Sweet and wonderful to say.
On my heart-strings freedom sings
All day everyday.

There are words like Liberty
That almost make me cry.
If you had known what I knew
You would know why.

Langston Hughes, from The Panther & the Lash (1967).

Where there are no rights, there are no duties.