14 Quotes by Steve Madison

People endorse negative liberty - the individual free of the State - and hate positive liberty - the individual harnessed by the State.

A people, not a parchment, and not a Supreme Court, must be the Constitution. The people are the walking, talking, living Constitution. Positive liberty is all about enshrining the Constitution in the citizens themselves. They live and breathe it, and always know how to do right by it.

Is this what you want to have written on your gravestone? - "I watched all the top-trending YouTube videos." Well done. Gold Star. Sad.

All of anarchism, libertarianism, and anti-Statism can be traced back to the rise of Protestantism. The USA - founded by Protestants (often extremist Protestants expelled from their own countries) is where the love of the individual and hatred of the collective is practically written into its Constitution, which is extremely Protestant in its character.

Isn't it time you stood on the high steps, or in front of the podium, and started making your address to the world? What's your message? If you don't have one, what then?

Why did the Roman Empire - the greatest civilizing force there has ever been - fall? It was because it became infected at every level by the negative liberty of Christianity. The Roman people started thinking of their personal salvation rather than their collective strength. Once the poison of individualism has spread among the people, Rome's fate was sealed. The collective collapsed. The Dark Ages came upon the West. Once the cohesion of the people has gone, everything fails.

Music is the perfect metaphor for mathematics. If you find it hard to grasp reality in mathematical terms, you will find that you can make incredible progress by instead thinking of it in musical terms, ad you will end up at more or less the same destination.

The universe is a collective mathematical composition, and we are all solo artists adding our own individual contribution.

Existence is mathematical music, and all of us are the instruments playing the cosmic symphony. Our task is simple - to arrive not at any old music, but the finest music that can possibly be played. The ideal music is reached when every player is in perfect harmony with every other player, and not a single discordant note is played.