Richard Ebeling famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Democracy #Guarantees #Stories
Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Government #Peaceful #Criminals
The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Abuse #Gold #Paper
Our world today is in the grip of anti-capitalism. State bureaucracies ruling over anti-market policies have grown into ideological and political elites who arrogantly presume to know and dictate how we should all live and work.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Our World #Political #Today
Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring did not have to join the work force at an early age. This produced something unique in history: Childhood, a time when the young could experience the innocence of play and opportunity of schooling before entering the world of work.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Opportunity #Unique #Play
Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments as the decades went by. They produced the wealth and rising income that resulted in the emergence of a phenomenon completely new to human history: a self-supporting and educated middle class that grew more and more as they lower classes bettered their economic well-being.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Class #Creating #Self
Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Country #America #Socialist Countries
If government goes beyond securing liberty and instead violates it through regulation, redistribution, and planning, then citizens are victims of legal plunder.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Government #Liberty #Citizens
The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Government #Welfare Programs #Analysis
Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Attitude #Government #Engineering
Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Government #States #Aspect
It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Brother #Integrity #Men
Each of us, Leonard Read said, must become candles of liberty in the darkness of collectivist ideas. The brighter we each shine through our understanding and ability to articulate the meaning of freedom, the more we will be beacons that can attract others.
-- Richard Ebeling

#Ideas #Shining #Understanding

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