{"author":"Jeffrey Tucker","author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker","total_quotes":38,"quotes":[{"text":"In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","austrian-economics","austrian-school-of-economics","banks","capitalism","coercion","economics","freedom","government","inflation","libertarian","liberty","money","national-debt","socialism","statism","taxation","voluntaryism"],"id":2784,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to support bad schools” or “all children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarchy","freedom","indoctrination","liberty","schooling","state-schools","statism","taxation","theft","voluntaryism"],"id":9524,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarchy","freedom","government","individualism","liberty","statism","taxation","voluntaryism"],"id":18546,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the state can be the right means to help those who are poor or living at the margins of society. The state is their enemy, as it is for everyone else.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarchy","corruption","despotism","freedom","statism","welfare-state"],"id":19592,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["critical-thinking","freedom","indoctrination","intelligence","liberty","rationality","self-knowledge"],"id":21232,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["libertarian","mises-institute","tucker"],"id":26219,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those costs, they later lobby for every company to be required to offer shoes. That calls forth regulation and monopolization of the shoe industry. Shoes are heavily subsidized. Every shoe must be approved. Producers must be domestic. They must adhere to a certain quality. They can't discriminate based on foot size or individual need. Prices rise, and some people lack shoes, so the Affordable Shoe Act forces everyone to buy into an official shoe plan or pay a fee. Here we have a perfect plan for making shoes egregiously expensive. The entire country would be consumed with the fear of being shoeless if they lose their job. The left wing calls for a single shoe provider to offer universal shoes and the right wing meekly suggests that shoe makers be permitted to sell across state lines.Meanwhile, libertarians suggest that we just forget the whole thing and let the market make and deliver shoes of every quality to anyone from anyone. Everyone screams that this is an insane and dangerous idea.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","coercion","collectivism","communism","economics","free","free-markets","freedom","government","interference","laissez-faire","law","libertarian","liberty","markets","monopoly","non-aggression-principle","politics","regulations","socialism","statism","trade","voluntaryism"],"id":36731,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"Commerce tends toward rewarding inclusion, broadness, and liberality. Tribal loyalties, ethnic and religious bigotries, and irrational prejudices are bad for business. The merchant class has been conventionally distrusted by tribalist leaders -- from the ancient to the modern world -- precisely because merchantcraft tends to break down barriers between groups.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","collectivism","free-market","free-trade","freedom","government","laissez-faire","libertarian","liberty","peace","socialism","statism","tyranny","voluntaryism"],"id":52185,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"Without anarchy, there would be chaos.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","ancap","austrian-economics","austrian-school-of-economics","coercion","collectivism","communism","economy","free-markets","freedom","government","laissez-fairez-faire","law","libertarian","liberty","order","organization","politics","private","socialism","state","statism","taxation","theft","thugs","voluntayism"],"id":59884,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"},{"text":"80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.","author":"Jeffrey Tucker","tags":["eighties","fashion","music","pop-music","style","time","trends"],"id":60704,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Tucker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}