“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011)
Hitchens’ razor
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury. But that is exactly what the State is doing.
Benjamin Tucker
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
“Society is like a stew. If you don’t stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.”
Abbey, Edward
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin
The goal of socialism is communism.
Vladimir Lenin
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Vladimir Lenin
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Vladimir Lenin
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Vladimir Lenin
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
Vladimir Lenin
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Vladimir Lenin
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Vladimir Lenin
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Lenin
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
Vladimir Lenin
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
Vladimir Lenin
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
Vladimir Lenin
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
Vladimir Lenin
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
Vladimir Lenin
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Vladimir Lenin
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Vladimir Lenin
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir Lenin
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Vladimir Lenin
Crime is a product of social excess.
Vladimir Lenin
Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin
If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
Vladimir Lenin
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Vladimir Lenin
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Vladimir Lenin
“There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
Charlton Heston