Jeffrey Tucker Quotes

• The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Government, Personality, World

  Jeffrey Tucker's Facebook post, www.facebook.com. May 24, 2013.

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• Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.

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  Believe, Political, Population

  Jeffrey Tucker (2012). “A Beautiful Anarchy: How to Create Your Own Civilization in the Digital Age”, p.319, Laissez Faire Books

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• Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All blessed things that rise above the state of nature are owned to it. The human race thrives only because of the lack of control, not because of it. I’m saying that we need ever more absence of control to make the world a more beautiful place. It is a paradox that we must forever explain.

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  Beautiful, Blessed, Fall

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• Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and control over the human spirit. Liberty is the dream that we can all work together, in ways of our choosing and of our own human volition, to realize a better life.

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  Dream, Sex, War

  FaceBook post by Jeffrey A. Tucker from Jun 03, 2014

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• Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look for the regulation that is causing it. This applies regardless of the sector, whether transportation, gas, education, food, beer, or daycare. There is something in the way that is preventing the market from working as it should. If you look carefully enough, you will find the hand of the state making the mess in question.

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  Beer, Hands, Daycare

  FaceBook post by Jeffrey A. Tucker from Jan 24, 2015

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• Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Things In Life, Foundation, Wonderful

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• We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

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  Government, Pay, Lord

  FaceBook post by Jeffrey A. Tucker from Feb 26, 2014

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• Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort and the greatest diverter of human productivity ever concocted by those who do not believe in authentic social and economic progress.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Lying, Believe, Dirty

  "Jeffrey Tucker on Laissez Faire Books, Intellectual Property Rights and 'Beautiful Anarchy'". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. August 12, 2012.

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• Free markets are the real people's revolution.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Real, People, Revolution

  FaceBook post by Jeffrey A. Tucker from Feb 06, 2015

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• The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

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  Goal, Intellectual, Orthodoxy

  FaceBook post by Jeffrey A. Tucker from Sep 10, 2014

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• Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.

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  Deeds, Matter, Morality

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• Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely important. Will the rule-making flow from the matrix of voluntary exchange based on the ethic of serving others through private enterprise? Or will the rules be made and enforced by people wearing guns and bulletproof vests with a license to shock or kill based on minor annoyances?

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  Gun, Bulletproof Vest, People

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• I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of liberty should also reveal new forms of beauty in the world, astonishing evidence of order without dictate, lovely examples of innovation without planning, and other magical things. Surely these deserve some attention too.

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  Passion, Order, Ideas

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• Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best of all possible worlds, while governments create and exacerbate malfunctions; the other imagined that governments were somehow capable of both perceiving and correcting malfunctions by means of the printing press, provided the right technocrats are in charge.

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  Heart, Mean, Government

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