14 Quotes by Brian Doherty

She's bright but more than anything she is very dedicated. She spends endless hours preparing labs and is always interested in the cutting edge.

We're losing control of how the money is being spent. . . . It's long overdue that we are active participants,

This class has made a special effort in the scholarship area,

This budget hearing is going to be more raucous than it has in the past. The Council is emboldened by a lot of what has transpired in the last year and they're going to demand to be more equal partners in the budget process,

Mises’s conclusion: “Whosoever foresees so clearly before the age of forty the disaster and the destruction of everything he deems of value, cannot escape pessimism and psychic depression.

Magna Carta or no, the rights of Americans were not not theirs only because of any ancient “contract.” As James Wilson put it, using ancient legal terms, “The fee simple of freedom and government is declared to be in the people.

And, most significantly for the libertarian movement, he read Murray Rothbard’s article in Ramparts magazine and discovered that he wasn’t crazy and he wasn’t alone – that there was a real link between the right-wing spirit of his old ideological home and the new left he was increasingly attracted to.166.

The progress of markets and wealth in the past centuries has eliminated many aspects of day-to-day early American life that strike us today as tyrannical, from the sharp distinctions of rank, the religion-based social control in the towns, and of course the most prominent stain on America’s libertarian heritage, the status of blacks and women.

As with many tempests in teapots among small, contentious, ideologically charged groups with a sense of millennial mission, it is hard for outsiders with the perspective of time to figure out what they were thinking, and why, and everyone involved can only remember that their side was right, and the other side wrong, with the most uncharitable possible spin put on the whole contretemps.