Brian Doherty Quotes
We bring light to unite the boulevards of Black Rock City: the light of civilization, navigation, and celebration. In honor of the immensity of the desert and the immensity of our dreams and visions, we hang our lamps high.

-Brian Doherty
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With Constant, the chief articulator of his generation’s liberal ideas, we see the beginnings of classical liberalism’s ‘state-hatred,’ which, after the 18th century’s ambiguous attitude, marks its theory to the present day,” noted modern libertarian and historian of class . . . Read more

-Brian Doherty
They knew the money had to go somewhere more secure. In ’96, they dug a hole in the playa with a backhoe and submerged an old water heater. They thrust a pipe into the water heater, left the other end of the pipe flush with the playa surface, and erected John Law’s tent over it, w . . . Read more

-Brian Doherty
The progress of markets and wealth in the past centuries has eliminated many aspects of day-to-day early American life that strike us today as tyrannical, from the sharp distinctions of rank, the religion-based social control in the towns, and of course the most prominent stain on Ame . . . Read more

-Brian Doherty
Magna Carta or no, the rights of Americans were not not theirs only because of any ancient “contract.” As James Wilson put it, using ancient legal terms, “The fee simple of freedom and government is declared to be in the people.

-Brian Doherty
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Nock’s “plan of action” was “a plan of no action at all. To Nock there was clearly only one path to follow, and that was to learn, to think, to write, to informally teach, and then, simply wait.

-Brian Doherty
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