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Internationella högerspöken
När majoriteten någon gång ansluter sig till den rätta ståndpunkten sker det alltid av fel orsak.
Lord Chesterfield
...det är totalt förbjudet att kritisera och kommentera någon del av denna konstitution eller Carolinas sedvanerätt eller skrivna lag
ur John Lockes Fundamental Constitution of Carolina
A despotism, which may tame the savage, will, in so far as it is a despotism, only confirm the slaves in their incapacities. Yet a government under their own control would be entirely unmanageable by them. Their improvement cannot come from themselves, but must be superinduced from without.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
Mussolini var en godhjärtad diktator. Han dödade aldrig någon. Som mest kunde han skicka någon till internering. En slags semester.
Silvio Berlusconi, regeringschef i Italien
Freedom, is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.
Rudy Giuliani
The people who own the country ought to govern it.
John Jay, Author of the Constitution, President of the Continental Congress, and first Chief Justice of the U.S.
The case most requiring consideration in reference to institutions is the not very uncommon one in which a small but leading portion of the population, from difference of race, more civilised origin, or other peculiarities of circumstance, are markedly superior in civilisation and general character to the remainder. Under those conditions, government by the representatives of the mass would stand a chance of depriving them of much of the benefit they might derive from the greater civilisation of the superior ranks; while government by the representatives of those ranks would probably rivet the degradation of the multitude, and leave them no hope of decent treatment except by ridding themselves of one of the most valuable elements of future advancement. The best prospect of improvement for a people thus composed lies in the existence of a constitutionally unlimited, or at least a practically preponderant, authority in the chief ruler of the dominant class.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
The exportation of laborers and capital from old to new countries, from a place where their productive power is less, to a place where it is greater, increases by so much the aggregate produce of the labor and capital of the world. ... There needs be no hesitation in affirming that Colonization, in the present state of the world, is the best affair of business, in which the capital of an old and wealthy country can engage.
John Stuart Mill: "On Colonies and Colonization", 1848
There ought to be limits to freedom.
George W. Bush om en satirhemsida om hans presidentvalskampanj
If only persons over 40, or income-earners, or only heads of households or only literate persons were given the vote this would scarcely be more of an infringement of the principle [of democracy] than the restrictions that are generally accepted. It is also possible for reasonable people to argue that the ideals of democracy would be better served if say, all the servants of government or all the recipients of public charity were excluded from the vote. If in the Western world universal adult suffrage seems the best arrangement, this does not prove that it is required by some basic principle.
Friedrich Hayek
One problem that we've had even in the best of times ... is the people who are sleeping on the grates. The homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.
President Ronald Reagan, on "Good Morning America", January 31, 1984
att få de okunniga och odugliga människomassorna till att dominera jorden
USA:s utrikesminister vid ryska revolutionen om vad bolsjevikerna strävade efter
...på senare år tycks den demokratiska processens verklningar ... ha framkallat ett sönderfall av traditionella metoder för social kontroll, en avlegitimisering av politiska och andra former för auktoritet, och en sådan anhopning av krav på regeringsmakten att dess förmåga till gensvar överskridits
Samuel P Huntington, Michel Crozier och Joji Watanuki i en rapport om "demokratins kris" 1975
The ruling country ought to be able to do for its subjects all that could be done by a succession of absolute monarchs, guaranteed by irresistible force against the precariousness of tenure attendant on barbarous despotisms, and qualified by their genius to anticipate all that experience has taught to the more advanced nation. Such is the ideal rule of a free people over a barbarous or semi-barbarous one.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
A slave, properly so called, is a being who has not learnt to help himself. He is, no doubt, one step in advance of a savage. He has not the first lesson of political society still to acquire. He has learnt to obey.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
Lord Acton
Det förefaller uppenbart att det knappast finns en mer fredsälskande nation på denna jord än Amerikas förenta stater. Det visade kriget vid Persiska viken.
Karl Popper, liberal filosof, 1993
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon
Al Smith påpekade en gång att "den enda medicinen mot demokratins avigsidor är mer demokrati". Enligt vår analys kan det botemedlet nu mycket väl betyda att mer bränsle läggs på brasan. I själva verket härrör somliga av problemen med att leda USA idag från ett demokratiskt överskott ... Vad som behövs är i stället ett större mått av återhållsamhet i demokratin.
Samuel P Huntington, Michel Crozier och Joji Watanuki i en rapport om "demokratins kris" 1975
Some of the problems of governance in the United States today stem from an excess of democracy ... The effective operation of a democratic political system usually requires some measure of apathy and noninvolvement on the part of some individuals and groups.
Samuel Huntington, U.S. Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission
I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle, and regarded it as a question of time, place, and circumstance
John Stuart Mill, "Autobiography", 1872
I think 'one man, one vote,' just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights.
Pat Robertson
Again, uncivilised races, and the bravest and most energetic still more than the rest, are averse to continuous labour of an unexciting kind. ... Hence even personal slavery, by giving a commencement to industrial life, and enforcing it as the exclusive occupation of the most numerous portion of the community, may accelerate the transition to a better freedom than that of fighting and rapine.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
There is no other means to safeguard a propitious development of human affairs than to make the masses of inferior people adopt the ideas of the elite.
Ludwig von Mises
Vi kalla det demokrati, parlamentarism, folklig självstyrelse, men det är faktiskt blott frånvaron av en om sitt ansvar medveten auktoritet, av en regering och därmed av en verklig stat.
Oswald Spengler
From the general weaknesses of the people or of the state of civilisation, the One and his counsellors, or the Few, are not likely to be habitually exempt; except in the case of their being foreigners, belonging to a superior people or a more advanced state of society. Then, indeed, the rulers may be, to almost any extent, superior in civilisation to those over whom they rule; and subjection to a foreign government of this description, notwithstanding its inevitable evils, is of ten of the greatest advantage to a people
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
Begäret efter andras egendom ... utbildas till världsåskådning och har till följd en motsvarande politik nedifrån.
Oswald Spengler
We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.
Ronald Reagan
I want to make sure that everyone that has a job wants a job.
George Bush
The mode in which such tribes are usually brought to submit to the primary conditions of civilised society is through the necessities of warfare, and the despotic authority indispensable to military command.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
...om den 'direkta insatsen av mekanisk och konventionell vapenmakt' sätts in i sådan massiv skala att den frambringar en massiv förflyttning från landsbygd till stad, upphör den grundläggande förutsättningen för den maoistiska doktrinen om det revolutionära kriget att existera.
Samuel P Huntington om hur militären skulle kunna kontra bondegerillor i Tredje Världen
Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Augusto Pinochet är ett offer för den organiserade internationella vänstern.
Margaret Thatcher, f d premiärminister för Storbrittanien
Framsteg består i att de få övertygar de många.
F A Hayek
Vi har ingen anledning att tro att beslut fattade av en majoritet präglas av den högre, överindividuella vishet som i viss mening återfinns i resultat frambringade av en spontan samhällsutveckling. I majoritetens beslut är det ingen idé att leta efter en sådan vishet. De måste snarare vara underlägsna de beslut som de intelligentaste medlemmarna av gruppen fattar efter att ha lyssnat till alla synpunkter. De blir resultatet av mindre noggranna funderingar och kommer på det hela taget att representera en kompromiss som inte tillfredsställer någon.
F A Hayek
Hur viktig den oberoende egendomsägaren än är för den ekonomiska ordningen i ett fritt samhälle är hans betydelse kanske ännu större på tänkandets och opinionsbildningens, smakens och trosuppfattningarnas områden. Det finns en allvarlig brist i ett samhälle, där alla intellektuella, moraliska och konstnärliga ledare hör till löntagarklassen, särskilt om de flesta arbetar i statlig tjänst.
F A Hayek
Kapitalism har kallats ett girighetens system - ändå är det det system som höjt levnadsstandarden för sina fattigaste medborgare till höjder inget kollektivistiskt system någonsin börjat matcha.
Ayn Rand
The greater a man's income, the greater has been his service to others.
Murray N. Rothbard
Massans tyranni är mångdubbelt tyranni.
Edmund Burke
Vad är flertalet? Flertal är galenskap, förstånd har alltid funnits blott hos de få.
Friedrich von Schiller
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H L Mencken
Despoti är ett legitimt styrelsesätt då det gäller barbarer, förutsatt att målet är deras bättring
John Stuart Mill
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