Notable Quotes
June 13th, 2007, 9:59 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Scott Shackford
A couple of interesting quotes from today’s Freedom School seminars:
”It becomes very difficult to defend liberty when you cave in on your favorite political projects.” — Tibor Machan, Freedom Communications Inc. libertarian commentator and advisor.
Tibor was giving a speech on markets and morality and why a foundation of personal liberty was vital to any realistic discussion of ethics and morals. The quote is particularly important to me because it feeds directly into another blog entry I’m working on explaining a little bit more about my transition toward libertarian thought.
“People use numbers the way they use rocks. They throw them at each other.” — Joe Cobb, former chief economist for the U.S. Republican Policy Committee.
Joe Cobb was speaking on the extremely vocal, emotional public conflict regarding illegal immigration. Joe is in favor of eliminating immigration quotas and argued that illegal immigration is a victimless crime, although there was a recognition of the drain on public services by illegal immigrants. Part of a libertarian perspective, though, is that the problem is our entitled attitude toward public services in the first place, not that illegal immigrants have access to them.
