Josiah Warren Quotes

#1. Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.

Josiah Warren

#2. Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

A.A. Gill

#3. Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

Josiah Warren

#5. Public influence is the real government of the world.

Josiah Warren

#6. The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

Josiah Warren

#7. The disconnection of Church and State was a master stroke for freedom and harmony.

Josiah Warren

#8. I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

Josiah Warren

#9. When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It's very taking is giving.

Mikhail Naimy

#10. People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

Ben Vereen

#11. This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

Josiah Warren

#12. Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H.L. Mencken

#13. It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

Josiah Warren

#14. Liberty is the sovereignty of the individual.

Josiah Warren

#15. It goes to establish a just and permanent principle of trade which puts an end to all serious fluctuations in prices and consequently, to all the insecurity and ruin which these fluctuations produce; and to build up those who are already ruined.

Josiah Warren

#16. It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.

Josiah Warren

#17. Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.

Josiah Warren

#18. You go to the draft board and think, 'Here's a nose tackle. Who needs a nose tackle?' Well, eight teams in front of you need a nose tackle, and there's two nose tackles. It's something you have to figure out where you can get the players to play in your system.

Bill Belichick

#19. The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

Josiah Warren

#20. Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Josiah Warren