Libertas Bella Official Merchandise Parner

Ron Paul’s Peace, Love, and Revolution: New Design + Capitalism Quotes

Who are capitalism’s greatest enemies? I count three. The first are politicians, who see capitalism as an obstacle separating them from their citizens’ wealth. That wealth also insulates their citizens from the politicians’ influence, which must surely stick in the craw of any would-be tyrants.

The second are business people themselves, who look to the government as their ultimate ace in the hole when it comes to beating competition. If an elite corps of producers can make itself the communist politicians’ key supporter, then they can compel legislation which puts their rivals out of business.

native advertising

The third are people who cannot fathom what it might be like to possess marketable skills. They look at the wealthy with contempt, believing they could only have gotten that way through chicanery and exploitation. In fairness, plenty of crooks ascend to the highest rungs of society, but this conveniently ignores everyone who made their money by contributing something useful to the world. This is an ability communists seldom, if ever, possess.

Continue reading “Ron Paul’s Peace, Love, and Revolution: New Design + Capitalism Quotes”

NEW DESIGN: Water: Nietzsche Approved + Socialism Quotes

How does socialism breed communism? Well, once the government is in charge of redistributing wealth, it becomes increasingly picky about just who can have any. Party officials, whose work is paramount to the continued operations of the state, have little to worry about. You, on the other hand, will have to work harder and get by on less once the government controls the coveted means of production. Did you think all those evil millionaires would stick around to volunteer their services? No, they’re now residing in other countries (or serving their country as party officials).

Somehow replacing all the people who create wealth with inexperienced bureaucrats manages to dampen an economy. Thus rendered unproductive, a socialist government must hound down more wealth in the only place it can find any: you. Your money may not be confiscated outright, but rising taxes will do the job well enough. Your property taxes may increase to a point where renting a room in a state-owned housing complex becomes more affordable. Or your land may just become government property. What right have you really got to own it anyway? Aren’t you aware that others are worse off than you?

And whatever you do, do not criticize this new state of affairs. There won’t be a crumb in store for anyone who opposes the march to utopia. Continue reading “NEW DESIGN: Water: Nietzsche Approved + Socialism Quotes”

Taxation Is Theft: New Design + Civil Disobedience Quotes

Life is exactly like Grand Theft Auto. But instead of a Pegassi Infernus that you just stole two minutes ago, you drive a ‘97 Geo Prizm with an AM-only radio. And instead of doing sweet jumps that end in crowds of pedestrians, you work the third shift at a jar factory. And instead of only paying fines when you are arrested or literally die, you have to fork over 30 percent of your income to people who have dedicated their lives to legalizing new ways of taking even more from you.

Continue reading “Taxation Is Theft: New Design + Civil Disobedience Quotes”

No Step On Snek: New Design + Paleolibertarian Ideology

No political movement is a monolith. Political movements have their own sub-sects and factions within them. Libertarianism has been no exception to this rule. One variety of libertarianism that stands out is paleolibertarianism.

The paleolibertarian strand of libertarianism fuses traditional cultural values and philosophical values with the standard libertarian antipathy of government intervention into private affairs. Continue reading “No Step On Snek: New Design + Paleolibertarian Ideology”

Don’t Tread On Anyone: New Design + Tyranny Quotes

Do you believe all people are equal and should be treated accordingly? Do you believe no one has the authority to dictate how you spend your short time on this beautiful blue marble? Congratulations! You are a dangerous extremist, with a pernicious respect for human life that must be stamped out at all costs.

Maybe one day you’ll come to reason and realize how dearly the world needs a cabal of isolated, ultrarich autocrats who call all the shots. But until that day comes, you’ll continue to preach the virtues of just letting people be.

That means you’ll support reprehensible pie-in-the-sky causes such as permitting people to leave their homes despite the media’s valiant attempts at fear mongering, love other people even if they share similar body parts to their own, and own psychoactive plants without fear of getting locked in a giant cage full of murderers.

Who knows? You may even advocate in favor of the United States government obeying its own Constitution. Frankly, there’s nothing a loony like you could do that would surprise us.

Continue reading “Don’t Tread On Anyone: New Design + Tyranny Quotes”

Edward Snowden Whistleblower: New Design + Freedom of Speech Quotes

We have a sinking feeling there will never be another Edward Snowden. It is quite possible that some other contractor will notice the government is doing something illegal and evil.

But if they decide to follow Snowden’s lead and bring it to their supervisors’ attention – or even go so far as to leak classified documents to the press – their odds of dying under mysterious circumstances will become one against one.

Continue reading “Edward Snowden Whistleblower: New Design + Freedom of Speech Quotes”

Dr. Jordan Peterson: New Design + Libertarian vs. Liberal

The Libertarian vs. Liberal debate is confusing for some, but once you understand it, it’s clear as day. While both of these political thought processes have some areas that overlap, you’ll soon understand the fundamental differences between the history, modernization, and 20th century belief systems behind them. Continue reading “Dr. Jordan Peterson: New Design + Libertarian vs. Liberal”

Taxation is Theft: New Design + Henry Hazlitt Quotes

“Balance of power” doesn’t mean the bureaucrats on either side of the aisle get to take turns using our tax dollars to enact their prescribed versions of “good policy.” It means a government that is fully accountable to the people therein – a novel idea, we know.

“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned, but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”

– Thomas Sowell

In all fairness, taxation isn’t really theft. Ratlike though they are, it’s not like IRS agents are wriggling through the crevices in your house’s foundation each night so they can take your stuff when you aren’t looking. Taxation is actually extortion, because the IRS will send armed men to encage you for not forking over one-third of your income each year.

We have more respect for street criminals than we do the IRS. When you get right down to it, the junkie who points a sharpened length of rebar at people’s throats is practicing entrepreneurism. It’s a crude form of entrepreneurism, true, but at least they’re self-employed. Continue reading “Taxation is Theft: New Design + Henry Hazlitt Quotes”

The 1984 Eye: New Design + George Orwell Quotes

He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. No other novel’s closing words have chilled us so deeply. But Orwell did not set out to write a horror story when he conceived Winston Smith’s adventures in Eurasia. He meant 1984 to warn us about the boot which is poised to stamp on the human face – forever.

1984 quotes pop up on social media relentlessly these days. Why is it that Eric Arthur Blair (better known by his pen name George Orwell), an English novelist, essayist and journalist whose entire life experience was limited to the first half of the 20th century, remains so relevant to this day?

Because Orwell, when confronted by the smudgy veneer of government and politics, saw through it to the brutal nastiness which despotism’s worst elements have in store for mankind.

It is impossible to read Orwell’s great dystopian novel and not draw countless parallels from it to the modern world.

Continue reading “The 1984 Eye: New Design + George Orwell Quotes”

Bitcoin Pilled: New Design + Cryptocurrency Quotes

“If you buy something like Bitcoin or some cryptocurrency, you don’t have anything that is producing anything. You’re just hoping the next guy pays more. And you only feel you’ll find the next guy to pay more if he thinks he’s going to find someone that’s going to pay more.” – One of Warren Buffett’s characteristically negative cryptocurrency quotes

In 2010, a Florida man paid 10,000 Bitcoins for two pizzas from a local delivery joint. As of mid-September, 2021, those pizzas would cost the equivalent of $4.8 billion. That’s roughly the gross domestic product of Montenegro.

Yikes.

The establishment still looks down on cryptocurrency as some sort of goofy novelty that will eventually run its course. They might point out that some unseemly people helped to give crypto its start, or that its technology makes it inaccessible to many investors. (We don’t doubt that Buffett’s disdain for crypto stems at least in part from his advanced age. Anyone who has tried teaching a nonagenarian how to use a remote control would rather jump off a cliff than explain blockchain to one. They’d probably land next to the body of the guy who dropped 10,000 Bitcoins on pizza).

Continue reading “Bitcoin Pilled: New Design + Cryptocurrency Quotes”

Wisdom Meets Design: Inspiring Quotes From Milton Friedman

Hailed as the godfather of conservative libertarianism, Milton Friedman quotes openly attacked Keynesianism in an era when most economists widely accepted its fundamental premises.

Friedman won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.” As a leader of the Chicago school of economics he taught several of the country’s future preeminent economists including Gary Becker, Robert Fogel, and Thomas Sowell.

Although Friedman approved of some aspects of the New Deal which he deemed suitable responses to the Great Depression, he opposed its regulation of both prices and wages. This opposition would color much of Friedman’s later stance on government intervention.

Friedman continued working for the government as a mathematical weapons statistician throughout the Second World War. When peace resumed he earned his doctorate from Columbia University and accepted a position at the University of Chicago where he would remain for 30 years. During his tenure Friedman wrote several influential books including A Theory of the Consumption Function and Capitalism and Freedom in which he laid out his groundbreaking theories.

Continue reading “Wisdom Meets Design: Inspiring Quotes From Milton Friedman”

Edward Snowden Hope: New Design + Freedom of Speech Quotes

“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.” – Idi Amin

Listen: A blog post isn’t going to change anyone’s mind about free speech. Freedom of speech quotes, however expertly they may have been curated, are not poised to make some pink-haired, nose-pierced, garishly-tattooed liberal arts student put down their hashtag pitchfork and reconsider whether they’re actually doing good by demanding the public crucifixion of anyone whose point of view falls right of Mao Zedong’s.

“Hate speech isn’t free speech.” This axiom, whenever it is bleated, should make any rational person’s skin crawl. It supposes that speech can be classified as acceptable or unacceptable and that someone has the duty to suppress the latter class.

No one has, and no one ought to. Perhaps in a perfect world, there could exist a ruling body that genuinely keeps its people’s best interests in mind when it bans the expression of objectively hideous sentiments. But this ain’t no perfect world, babe. If you’ve ever stepped on a wet patch of floor right after you put on fresh socks, then you have to know it.

The second you create authority, only authoritarians will allow themselves to have it. Let them control what you’re able to say, and the second it gives them an advantage they’ll slam the Overton window shut so hard it’ll cut off your fingertips. Justify restricting speech to protect the oppressed until you’ve run out of breath; it won’t change the fact that the oppressed are never the ones who control what others are allowed to say.

“Allowed to say!” We shouldn’t even be allowed to say such words. No one really gives a rat’s patoot what anyone has to say, anyway. It’s what they’re able to think that counts, and that’s the absolute devilry behind all of it. What your enemies really want is to control your thoughts. Removing your tongue is just outpatient lobotomy.

Continue reading “Edward Snowden Hope: New Design + Freedom of Speech Quotes”

Working Man’s Hedge Fund: New Design + Famous Liberty Quotes That You’ll Want to Free up Some Time For

Why should you give a fig about liberty quotes?

Have you ever spoken with someone who has just discovered a new television show, and they’re going absolutely bananas about how you need to watch it too? “Oh, I just know you’re going to love The Foolish Man and the German Shepherd Dog,” they’ll coo. “I know the title sounds a little weird, but it stars an actor I love, and there’s this one episode where the German Shepherd Dog gets jam on his necktie before a big job interview that will split you in half with laughter!” And you kind of have to smile and promise you’ll watch it, and ask them to please stop touching you.

Libertarians are the same way about liberty. “Don’t you love liberty?” they will ask you. “Well, how would you like more liberty? Imagine how much more liberty everyone could have if we only did X, Y and Z! I love liberty so much I’d squirt it on my waffles every morning if only it were viscous instead of an abstract concept!”

But in the libertarian’s defense, liberty really is that good.

Never accept limits to your liberty in consideration of greater protection. The people offering you that protection are by far the most dangerous thing you will ever encounter. And although liberty must be earned by the hardest of people making the greatest of sacrifices, it is as vulnerable as a Fabergé egg in a daycare for children with inner ear infections. Forfeit even the tiniest little piece of it, and the despots, the bureaucrats, and the sadists who infest government will inevitably clamor for the next. And the next. And the next.

Give a mouse a cookie and he will ask for a glass of milk. With that, here are some of our favorite quotes about liberty.

Continue reading “Working Man’s Hedge Fund: New Design + Famous Liberty Quotes That You’ll Want to Free up Some Time For”

Friedrich Hayek Design + Inspiring Lysander Spooner Quotes

Spooner is best known for this historic coup over the government, yet he had a long career of sticking it to the man. He broke state law by setting up a legal practice in Massachusetts despite having neither graduated from college nor studied under another attorney for five years.

In 1845 Spooner published The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, in which he wove a complex system of legal and moral arguments against the legality of bondage.

Though he spent the next 20 years campaigning for the abolishment of slavery, Spooner also recognized the right of the Confederate States of America to secede from the union. Spooner’s nuanced morality would fit with neither side’s position during the Civil War.

Continue reading “Friedrich Hayek Design + Inspiring Lysander Spooner Quotes”