by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 30, 2015 | The Legislature
We have been ruled by men who live by illusions: the illusion that you can spend money you haven’t earned without eventually going bankrupt or falling into the hands of your creditors; the illusion that real jobs can be conjured into existence by Government decree,...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 30, 2015 | The Legislature
Today in Britain there are millions living in squalor, poverty, and ignorance on drug and crime-infested council estates. These vast, barren, weed and rubbish strewn concrete monstrosities are an abomination, the worst and most depressing places imaginable to live. Of...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 30, 2015 | The Legislature
As the sum of all human knowledge grows, so does each individual’s relative ignorance The more men know, the smaller the share of all that knowledge becomes that any one mind can absorb. The more civilized we become, the more relatively ignorant must each individual...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 30, 2015 | The Legislature
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 29, 2015 | The Legislature
All government meddling beyond its proper sphere is injustice When the government subsidizes the steel industry, the wool industry and the arts, or builds space telescopes or particle accelerators, or pays for food critics to fly in from overseas and puts them up at...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 29, 2015 | The Legislature
No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his...
