Ralph Raico famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.
-- Ralph Raico

#Past #Ideas #Today
Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.
-- Ralph Raico

#Honesty #Men #Blood
What is the free market? Well, the free market, [we're told] is really a terrible, inhuman kind of arrangement, because it treats people like commodities. But how does the government treat people? Like garbage-worse than garbage. Not like commodities, but like nothing. We libertarians understand that we are not humane, we are not compassionate. It's the leftists and the liberals, they're the ones who are human and compassionate, but you'd better not get in their way.
-- Ralph Raico

#Government #People #Doe
Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist â€˜experimentsâ€™ of the 1930s.
-- Ralph Raico

#Lovers #Communist #Keynes
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to appalling poverty and state absolutism. There was nothing in the socialist doctrine of the time that would suggest otherwise.
-- Ralph Raico

#Men #Goal #Absolutism
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated over several centuries, which offered a new concept of social order, encompassing freedom in the only form suited to the modern world. Step by step, in practice and theory, the various sectors of human activity were withdrawn from the jurisdiction of coercive authority and given over to the voluntary action of self-regulating society.
-- Ralph Raico

#Self #Order #Practice
With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.
-- Ralph Raico

#Granted #Economics #Mass
Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.
-- Ralph Raico

#Mean #Competition #Growth
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.
-- Ralph Raico

#Lying #Economics #Chiefs
Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the disposal of the governing class to exploit the public at large for the benefits of its various clienteles.
-- Ralph Raico

#Military #Mean #Government
The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of â€œnational economyâ€ . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of â€œnational economyâ€ . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.
-- Ralph Raico

#Light #Law #Practice

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