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The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters. And that's beginning to happen. More than six decades of hard work for American liberty beginning with the Old Right opposition to the Roosevelt Revolution and continuing with the Mises Institute, is beginning to bear fruit.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.

Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another.

Revolutions never go backwards.

You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has not been tried.

Society is just a structure with no soul. The soul is of the individual. One individual outweighs all societies. And, one individual's revolution outweighs all revolutions in the whole of history, because one man can become the womb for God to be reborn.

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.

I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.