12 Quotes by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

As George Orwell might have said, with socialism all men are created equal, only some are more equal than others.

The Jeffersonians “hated and feared” the Jacobin concept of a “general will,” wrote Felix Morley in Freedom and Federalism.29 For if “the general will” were to become a practical reality regarding the operation of government, then all voluntary associations must be subjected to government regulation and control in the name of “the people” and their “will” – as interpreted by a ruling elite. This would be the road to serfdom and the end of individual liberty.

The perpetual demonization of the South and Southerners is part and parcel of the Lincoln myth. The continued demonization of everything Southern is part of the gatekeepers’ strategy to keep the public from ever becoming curious about alternative interpretations of nineteenth-century history.