Jeffrey Tucker famous quotes

06-23-2025

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Government #Personality #World
Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Believe #Political #Population
Now, Iâ€™m not saying that we donâ€™t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely important. Will the rule-making flow from the matrix of voluntary exchange based on the ethic of serving others through private enterprise? Or will the rules be made and enforced by people wearing guns and bulletproof vests with a license to shock or kill based on minor annoyances?
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Gun #People #Important
Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look for the regulation that is causing it. This applies regardless of the sector, whether transportation, gas, education, food, beer, or daycare. There is something in the way that is preventing the market from working as it should. If you look carefully enough, you will find the hand of the state making the mess in question.
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Beer #Hands #Principles
Free markets are the real people's revolution.
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Real #People #Revolution
I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of liberty should also reveal new forms of beauty in the world, astonishing evidence of order without dictate, lovely examples of innovation without planning, and other magical things. Surely these deserve some attention too.
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Passion #Order #Ideas
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.
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Dream #Sex #War
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Goal #Intellectual #Orthodoxy
We really donâ€™t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Government #Pay #Lord
Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Deeds #Matter #Morality
Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All blessed things that rise above the state of nature are owned to it. The human race thrives only because of the lack of control, not because of it. Iâ€™m saying that we need ever more absence of control to make the world a more beautiful place. It is a paradox that we must forever explain.
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Beautiful #Blessed #Fall
Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.
-- Jeffrey Tucker

#Foundation #Wonderful

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