Skip to content
Student Of Liberty 己所不欲,勿施于人
  • Home
  • About
Student Of Liberty

Tag: Adolphe Thiers


PARLIAMENTARY CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Posted on August 20, 2021 by studentofliberty

MEN LOVE POWER. They love it so frenziedly that, in order to capture it or to keep it, there is nothing that they would not sacrifice, not even the peace and happiness of their own country.

Read More

INCOMPATIBILITES PARLEMENTAIRES

Posted on August 20, 2021 by studentofliberty

LES HOMMES AIMENT LA PUISSANCE. Ils l’adorent avec tant de fureur, que, pour la conquérir ou la conserver, il n’est rien qu’ils ne sacrifient, même le repos et le bonheur de leur pays.

Read More

SPEECH ON THE TAX ON WINES AND SPIRITS

Posted on August 6, 2021August 9, 2021 by studentofliberty

For when it comes to civil servants, there is no halfway house: if they are not very useful indeed, they are harmful; if they do not uphold the freedom of citizens, they stifle it.

Read More

DISCOURS SUR L’IMPOT DES BOISSONS

Posted on August 6, 2021August 9, 2021 by studentofliberty

Car, en fait de fonctionnaires publics, il n’y a pas de neutralité: s’ils ne sont pas très-utiles, ils sont nuisibles, s’ils ne maintiennent pas la liberté des citoyens, ils l’oppriment.

Read More

PROTECTIONISM AND COMMUNISM

Posted on April 28, 2021May 10, 2021 by studentofliberty

Any citizen who has created or acquired a product must have the option of either using it immediately or selling it to another person on the earth’s surface who is free to give him in exchange the object of his preference.

Read More

PROTECTIONISME ET COMMUNISME

Posted on April 28, 2021May 10, 2021 by studentofliberty

Tout citoyen qui a créé ou acquis un produit doit avoir l’option ou de l’appliquer immédiatement à son usage, ou de le céder à quiconque, sur la surface du globe, consent à lui donner en échange l’objet qu’il préfère.

Read More

PROTECTIONISME ET COMMUNISME

Posted on April 26, 2021May 10, 2021 by studentofliberty

…le Protectionisme, en se généralisant, devient Communisme, comme un carpillon devient carpe…

Read More

PROTECTIONISM AND COMMUNISM

Posted on April 26, 2021May 10, 2021 by studentofliberty

…when it is generalized, protectionism becomes communism, just as carp fry become adult carp…

Read More

BACCALAURÉAT ET SOCIALISME

Posted on April 21, 2021April 23, 2021 by studentofliberty

La concurrence a pour effet de provoquer, révéler et universaliser les bonnes méthodes, et de faire sombrer les mauvaises.

Read More

BACCALAUREATE AND SOCIALISM

Posted on April 21, 2021April 23, 2021 by studentofliberty

The effect of competition is to stimulate good methods, reveal them and make them universal, and eliminate bad ones.

Read More

BACCALAUREATE AND SOCIALISM

Posted on April 19, 2021April 23, 2021 by studentofliberty

I am not calling on the state to align everyone with my views but to say, “Do not subject me to the opinion of others.”

Read More

BACCALAURÉAT ET SOCIALISME

Posted on April 19, 2021April 23, 2021 by studentofliberty

Je n’interpelle pas l’Etat pour lui dire: Soumettez tout le monde à mon opinion, mais bien: Ne me courbez pas sous l’opinion d’autrui.

Read More

BACCALAURÉAT ET SOCIALISME

Posted on April 12, 2021April 23, 2021 by studentofliberty

Ce ne sont pas seulement des mots qu’on apprend aux enfants en leur apprenant le grec et le latin, ce sont de nobles et sublimes choses (la spoliation, la guerre et l’esclavage).

Read More

BACCALAUREATE AND SOCIALISM

Posted on April 12, 2021April 23, 2021 by studentofliberty

It is not just the words that are being taught to children when they are taught Greek and Latin, it is noble and sublime things (plunder, war, and slavery).

Read More

LA LOI

Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 by studentofliberty

Il faut le dire, il y a trop de grands hommes dans le monde;

Read More

THE LAW

Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 by studentofliberty

It has to be said: there are too many great men in the world.

Read More

LA LOI

Posted on March 19, 2021March 24, 2021 by studentofliberty

Quelle liberté, d’ailleurs, pourrait-on laisser aux hommes?

Read More

THE LAW

Posted on March 19, 2021March 24, 2021 by studentofliberty

What freedom, besides, can we leave men?

Read More

3. TAXES.

Posted on January 1, 2021 by studentofliberty

A caterer in Paris has earned one hundred sous, I grant you, but you should grant me that a laborer in the provinces has failed to earn five francs.

Read More

III. L’IMPÔT.

Posted on January 1, 2021 by studentofliberty

Un traiteur parisien a gagné cent sous, je vous l’accorde; mais accordez-moi qu’un terrassier provincial a manqué de gagner cinq francs.

Read More

18. – THE MAYOR OF ÉNIOS.

Posted on December 9, 2020 by studentofliberty

I myself used to say that men would ruin themselves if they were left to barter freely!

Read More

63. – LE MAIRE D’ÉNIOS.

Posted on December 9, 2020 by studentofliberty

Je disais bien, moi, que les hommes se ruineraient tous, si on les laissait libres de faire des trocs!

Read More

XV. – THE FREE TRADER’S LITTLE ARSENAL.

Posted on October 27, 2020 by studentofliberty

All injustice is of benefit to someone […]; to defend injustice on the grounds of the inconvenience that its abolition will cause the person who benefits from it, is to say that an injustice should be eternal for the sole reason that it has existed for an instant.

Read More

XV. – LE PETIT ARSENAL DU LIBRE-ÉCHANGISTE.

Posted on October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 by studentofliberty

Toute injustice profite à quelqu’un […]; arguer du dérangement que la cessation de l’injustice occasionne à celui qui en profite, c’est dire qu’une injustice, par cela seul qu’elle a existé un moment, doit être éternelle.

Read More

XIX. – INDÉPENDANCE NATIONALE.

Posted on September 30, 2020November 12, 2020 by studentofliberty

Je sais bien qu’on me reprochera (c’est la mode du jour) de donner pour base à la fraternité des peuples l’intérêt, le vil et prosaïque intérêt.

Read More

XIX. – NATIONAL INDEPENDANCE.

Posted on September 30, 2020September 17, 2021 by studentofliberty

I am fully aware that I will be blamed (for this is the current fashion) for resting fraternity between nations on self-interest, vile and prosaic interest.

Read More
  • Follow me on Twitter

Archives

  • March 2023 (14)
  • February 2023 (18)
  • March 2022 (18)
  • February 2022 (10)
  • January 2022 (6)
  • December 2021 (20)
  • November 2021 (26)
  • October 2021 (12)
  • September 2021 (20)
  • August 2021 (26)
  • July 2021 (26)
  • June 2021 (26)
  • May 2021 (25)
  • April 2021 (26)
  • March 2021 (28)
  • February 2021 (24)
  • January 2021 (26)
  • December 2020 (26)
  • November 2020 (26)
  • October 2020 (46)
  • September 2020 (40)
Student Of Liberty | Powered by Brisko WordPress Theme