Lines
Short quotes are sometimes short on meaning because they are divorced from context or explanation. But they are frequently useful. I try to come up with a pithy slogan to open each Thinking Liberty show. Here are some I worked on recently that aren’t ready for radio:
Political ambitions are efforts to realize personal desires – the political is an effort to realize (and universalize?) the personal.
A person who desires dominance over his own life, and not over the lives of others, who reasons his beliefs to consistency is an anarchist.
Humans must be free to develop a meaningful existence. Authority rests on the notion that some people are entitled to decide life for others.
To be libertarian means to seek maximum individual liberty and minimal authoritarian interference. To be consistently libertarian one must be an anarchist. Rulership is only detrimental to freedom; people can organize and enforce agreements without any class of people being in charge.
Individuals must liberate themselves. We can only make freedom easier to choose.
