Ryan Griffith:
CLASS OF 1988
Long Beach Polytechnic High SchoolClass of 1988
Long beach, CA
Ryan's Story
Ryan is from Long Beach, California. Ryan's schools include Long Beach Polytechnic High School. Ryan later attended San Diego State University (No Degree. Just had a great time!) , California State University, Long Beach (Physics, B.S.) .
Ryan's interests include News, Politics, Science. Music Ryan likes includes Eagles, Jerry Garcia, ASTROPILOT. Books Ryan likes include The Art of Being Free, Meltdown, Man. Movies Ryan likes include Phantasm, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars.
One of Ryan's favorite quotes is:""When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable." - H.L. Mencken
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. " - H.L. Mencken
"While America's liberal elite have not reached the depths of tyrants such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Hitler, they share a common vision and, as such, differ only in degree but not kind. Both denounce free markets and voluntary exchange. They are for control and coercion by the state. They believe they have superior wisdom to the masses and they have been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. They, like any other tyrant, have what they see as good reasons for restricting the freedom of others." - Walter E. Williams
"Socialism is a phil...Expand for more
osophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. " - Winston Churchill
"The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the threat of force to behave otherwise than they would like to behave." â Ludwig von Mises
"Politically there is nothing more advantageous for a government than an attack on property rights, for it is always an easy matter to incite the masses against the owners of land and capital." - Ludwig von Mises
"It constantly amazes me that defenders of the free market are expected to offer certainty and perfection while government has only to make promises and express good intentions." - Lawrence W. Reed
"Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in oneâs house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns." -- Murray Rothbard
"Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given." â Lysander Spooner
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C. S. Lewis".
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