"The lesson I
have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies
uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in
harmony with this lesson. Let society's legal
apparatus remove all obstacles the best it can.
Permit these creative know-hows freely to flow. Have
faith that free men and women will respond to the
Invisible Hand. This faith will be confirmed. I,
Pencil, seemingly simple though I am, offer the
miracle of my creation as testimony that this is a
practical faith, as practical as the sun, the rain,
a cedar tree, the good earth."
Leonard E. Read
"The following
dialogue is imagined to have taken place as I lay
dying on a battlefield near the 38th Parallel in
Korea. And let us also imagine that the thoughts
were inspired by a passage I had read from the
chaplain’s Bible a few days before: 'Put up again
thy sword into his place: for all they that take the
sword shall perish by the sword.'"
Leonard E. Read
"One day in the
House of Representatives, a bill was taken up
appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a
distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful
speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker
was just about to put the question when Crockett
arose:"
by Colonel David
Crockett; Compiled by Edward S. Elli
"First they came
for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was
not a Jew."
Pastor Martin
Niemöller
"Outraged by
American military intervention in the Philippines,
Mark Twain wrote The War Prayer and sent it to
Harper's Bazaar. This women's magazine rejected it
for being too radical, and it wasn't published until
after Mark Twain's death, when World War I made it
even more timely. It appeared in Harper's Monthly,
November 1916."
Mark Twain
"'Price gouging'
is nothing more than charging what the market will
bear. If that's immoral, then all market adjustment
to changing circumstances is "immoral," and markets
per se are immoral. But that is not the case. And I
don't think a store owner who makes money by
satisfying the urgent needs of his customers is
immoral either. It is called making a living. And,
in the wake of Hurricane Charley, surviving."
David M. Brown
"This article,
first published in Modern Age, 24, 1 (Winter
1980), pp. 9-15, as "Myth and Truth About
Libertarianism," is based on a paper presented at
the April 1979 national meeting of the Philadelphia
Society in Chicago. The theme of the meeting was
'Conservatism and Libertarianism.'"
Murray N.
Rothbard
"We are led to
believe that democracy and peace are inextricably
linked; that democracy leads to and causes peace;
and that peace cannot be achieved in the absence of
democracy."
James Ostrowski
"Contrary to
popular opinion, HOAs are not anything at all like
government."
Scott McPherson
"Principled
advocacy of the free market requires an
understanding of the differences between genuine
free enterprise and 'state capitalism.'”
Anthony Gregory
"Why have so
many conservative Christians been strong
supporters of the war on Iraq? Here are the
beliefs, some long established, some new or
specific to the current administration, that I
am hearing from the ones I know."
Stephen W.
Carson
"America’s
churches are as “dumbed down” as its
schools. In all fairness, several
generations of pastors have been lied to
about the political themes in the Bible. Our
call to be “salt and light” goes beyond
loving our neighbors, telling the truth and
being faithful to our spouses. It extends to
all aspects of life including politics,
economics, law, education, medicine and any
societal issue you can think of."
Doug
Newman
"Leave
service out of it, and you have
misunderstood the basis of any success you
have had or will have. Success starts with
service. So does significance. Choose your
forms of service well."
Gary
North
"Modern conservative, fundamentalist, and
evangelical Christians, all of whom might
claim him as one of their own, have much to
learn from Spurgeon, not only for his
example of an uncompromising and successful
Christian minister, but also for his
consistent opposition to war and Christian
war fever."
Laurence M. Vance
"War would be understandable among
the beasts, for they lack natural
reason; it is an aberration among
men because the evil of war can be
easily understood through the use of
reason alone. War, however, is
inconceivable among Christians
because it is not only rationally
objectionable but, even more
important, ethically inadmissible."
Laurence M. Vance
"At the close of the Constitutional
Convention in 1787, Benjamin
Franklin told an inquisitive citizen
that the delegates to the
Constitutional Convention gave the
people “a Republic, if you can keep
it.” We should apologize to Mr.
Franklin. It is obvious that the
Republic is gone, for we are
wallowing in a pure democracy
against which the Founders had
strongly warned."
Ron Paul
"That
many evangelical Christians have
started questioning the
necessity and morality of Bush’s
war, just as some in the
military have
repudiated their service in Iraq
for the state,
is a welcome sight. The real
test will be when the United
States bombs the next country."
Laurence M. Vance
"Socialism, interventionism,
empire, and militarism will
continue to bring us
internal moral decay, a
decay that perhaps is best
reflected by how U.S.
officials treat people from
foreign lands. The rot will
inevitably be accompanied by
exorbitant government
spending, borrowing,
taxation, regulation, and
assaults on civil liberty."
Jacob G. Hornberger
"People die in war. They are
killed. The greater peace
that is promised never
comes, the greater freedom
guaranteed is never
delivered. Next time someone
shrugs off your concern for
those who have died in any
given war at hand, and says,
"people die in war," perhaps
you should ask why it is,
considering the horrific
effect wars apparently have
on people’s respect for
life, that they think war is
an acceptable thing to
support."
Anthony Gregory
"Keep making the sacrifice. Believe in peace. Proclaim peace. Stand up to the state. Be a dissident. Tell what is true. And do not fear the emperor-pirates. They, after all, fear you. For you help tilt the balance of history against their barbarism, and in favor of peace and freedom."
Lew Rockwell
An Archive of Material on the Pro-War Libertarian Folly
Anthony Gregory
An Open Letter to My Christian Warmongering Parents
"If you feel a moral obligation to fight the wars of our government then you are free to go and I'll pray that God's will is done, but don't think for a second that you have any right to send my boy to fight, kill or die in your stead."
Bryan Morton
