Richard Maybury's Quotable Quotes

From Early Warning Report, the Uncle Eric Books and Interviews

"America's Founders were convinced political power corrupts. John Adams said, 'Fear is the foundation of governments.' "

- Whatever Happened to Justice?

"The law is no longer a shield, it's a sword."

- January 2020 Early Warning Report

"Political power is the legalized privilege of using brute force on persons who have not harmed anyone."

- February 2020 Early Warning Report

"Nothing on the internet will ever be secure as long as governments use it as a battlefield."

- March 2021 Early Warning Report

"Government controlled schools are even worse than a government controlled press; both are engines of tyranny."

- February 2021 Early Warning Report

"History repeats, because governments keep making the same stupid mistakes. As Mark Twain said, history does not repeat, but it rhymes."

- June 2007 Early Warning Report

"Once a government grows past a certain size, it becomes all power and no brains."

- March 2021 Early Warning Report

"As an economic model, socialism is stone dead."

- March 2009 Early Warning Report

"When the government grows large enough, the losses outnumber the gains and civilization moves backward. We apparently reached this point sometime in the early 1970s."

- Whatever Happened to Justice?

"From my 2,500 years of economic history, one thing I have concluded is that seekers of political power are all cut from the same cloth, regardless of what time or place they live in."

- The End of Washington as Superpower
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