The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. William Penn
Monthly Archives: June 2023
The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are …
The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as public good. Friedrich A. Hayek
Nobel Prize Winnter, The Constitution of Liberty, 1960 (1899-1992)
If you are talking about working full-time, 50 or more weeks …
If you are talking about working full-time, 50 or more weeks a year, then there are more people doing that in the top 5 percent of households than in the bottom 20 percent. As Casey Stengel used to say, you can look it up. These are Census data, available on-line from the Current Population Survey, Table HINC-06…. It may not be a breakthrough on the frontiers of economics to say that work pays, but it does. Among households in the bottom 20 percent in income, there are more than 13 million people who do not work at all and fewer than 8 million who do work, counting both full time and part time workers. Thomas Sowell
May 2, 2003
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid …
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. Theodore Roosevelt
(26th President of the United States, 1858-1919)
Since Congress may only investigate into those areas in which it may …
Since Congress may only investigate into those areas in which it may potentially legislate or appropriate, it cannot inquire into matters which are within the exclusive province of one or the other branches of government. United States Supreme Court
1959
Everyone’s a capitalist until socialism can save them from bad economic …
Everyone’s a capitalist until socialism can save them from bad economic decisions. People bought homes they couldn’t afford with loans they should never have received. Bailing out irresponsible lenders and borrowers in order to keep housing prices artificially high will only reward fools and punish future homebuyers. Joe Doser
US News, April 7, 2008
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline …
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its …
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Thomas Paine
1737-1809.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Mao Tse-…
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-tung
Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao (1968).
In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that …
In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. Ayn Rand
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