John Pugsley Quotes

• I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

  John Pugsley

  Thug, Ideas, Liberty

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• When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen are all of the property, business, and jobs that would have been created if citizens were left with the right to choose.

  John Pugsley

  Jobs, Government, Citizens

  John Pugsley (2007). “The Chairman's Corner: Essays on Liberty from the Sovereign Individual”, p.204, The Sovereign Society

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• How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

  John Pugsley

  Important, Liberty, Quests

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• All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

  John Pugsley

  Struggle, Guy, Political

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• Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

  John Pugsley

  Goal, Size, Profit

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• Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

  John Pugsley

  Men, Victory, Ships

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• Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result.

  John Pugsley

  Government, Subsidies, Tariffs

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• Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

  John Pugsley

  Government, Citizens, Stealing

  John Pugsley (2007). “The Chairman's Corner: Essays on Liberty from the Sovereign Individual”, p.166, The Sovereign Society

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• Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

  John Pugsley

  Monopoly Power, Competition, Illusion

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• Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

  John Pugsley

  Government, Law, Opposites

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• In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself acknowledged that only 20% of the destruction inflicted by his invasion was inflicted on military objectives. Civilian non-combatants, essentially innocents, suffered 80% of the losses.

  John Pugsley

  Military, War, Home

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• The consumer gets the best deal when the product is cheapest, and the product is cheapest when people can freely compete in the market place.

  John Pugsley

  People, Deals, Consumers

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• Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer.

  John Pugsley

  Competition, Illegal, Situation

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• Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

  John Pugsley

  Taxation, Levels, Prosperity

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• ...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

  John Pugsley

  Humans, Property, Havens

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