Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Who Was R.C. Hoiles? - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily

Who Was R.C. Hoiles? - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily: "Hoiles found, he said, that while his

school texts exposed the political 'error' of the divine right of kings … they never explained the error in the divine right of the majority. [They] simply substituted the divine right of the majority for the divine right of kings.
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"'The most harmful error most honest people make,' he wrote in an editorial in the Santa Ana Register,

is the belief that a group or a government can do things that would be harmful and wicked if done by an individual and produce results that are not harmful, unjust and wicked. It is the belief that a number of people doing a thing that is wrong for an individual to do, can make it right and just.
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"As Hoiles himself put it, 'Any time a man has to pay for something he does not want because of the initiating of force by the government, he is, to that degree, a slave.'"

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