The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books. Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist (1912-2006)
When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it.No …
When the white man discovered this country Indians were running it.No taxes no debt, women did all the work White man thought he could improve on a system like this. Old Cherokee Saying
Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to …
Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny. Barry Goldwater
U.S. Senator, 1964 (1909-1998)
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be …
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister (1874-1880), author, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1804-1881
We love what we do. … The real reason people don’t have …
We love what we do. … The real reason people don’t have what they want in life is because of what you don’t know. See because when you don’t know nothing you don’t get nothing, that’s the bottom line.So the next time you get ready to blame race, creed, gender or someone else for what you don’t have, what you do is take a couple of steps back and walk to a library which is free and check out as many books as you can on what it is you’re trying to [learn].Read, read, read, r-e-e-e-d.You are all on this planet for one reason. You know what that reason is? How many people have you helped along the journey before it is time for you to leave this planet, what we call Earth. Because when you’ve understood there’s one race, it’s called the human race, trust me, your life will be just as cool as ours. The BlackStreetBoyz, Alfred and Seymour
Comedy duo with a great message (http://www.blackstreetboyz.us)
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. . .[W]hen all government. . .shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated. Thomas Jefferson
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[I]n an innovation-driven capitalist economy there are no level fields. Crucial new ideas, decisively superior to the competition, always establish monopolies, allowing the entrepreneur and his investors to extract “inordinate” profits to compensate for extreme risks. These momentary monopolies dissolve under the next technological advance–that is, unless government steps in to freeze the players in place. Bret Swanson and Richard Vigilante
From ‘Unnnatural Monopliies’ by in The American Spectator’s annual Summer Reading issue, 2001
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and …
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. Paul Sweeney
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch …
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore. You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these states. John Adams
Letter to Mrs. Adams, July 3, 1776. American diplomat and 2nd President of the United States from 1797-1801 (1735-1826) on what is now celebrated on July 4, after Congress declared independence as the British fleet and army arrive at New York.
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the …
Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered. Daniel Webster
from Webster’s Works. Boston. 1857. 1782-1852