When law and morality contradict one another, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his sense of morality or losing his respect for the law. Frederic Bastiat
Monthly Archives: July 2024
Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the …
Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1970
We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the …
We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out. Decca Recording Company executive
Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962
Make welfare as hard to get as building permits. Unknown On a …
Make welfare as hard to get as building permits.
Unknown
On a bumper sticker seen in Miami, Florida.
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School …
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. Mark Twain
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894 (1835-1910)
We cannot escape our destiny nor should we try to do so. …
We cannot escape our destiny nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan, Jan 25, 1974
The theories – the ideas she expressed about equality of results within legislative …
The theories – the ideas she expressed about equality of results within legislativebodies and with – by outcome, by decisions made by legislative bodies, ideas related to proportional voting as a general remedy, not in particular cases where thecircumstances make that a feasible idea… Al Gore
Giving a straight answer on ABC’s Nightline, after being asked about President Clinton’s withdrawal of Lani Guinier’s nomination to the EEOC.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that …
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. Andrew Carnegie
US Industrialist and philanthropist 1835-1919
For their security, Americans still must rely on inefficiency: No sensible citizen …
For their security, Americans still must rely on inefficiency: No sensible citizen should desire a government with the military and economic power ours has, but the U.S. rarely exercises these effectively. Barron’s
Barron’s March 29, 1999 (http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB922491784617955647.htm)
Market allocation of goods and services depends upon peaceable, voluntary exchange. Under …
Market allocation of goods and services depends upon peaceable, voluntary exchange. Under such exchanges, the essence of our proposition to our fellow man is: If you do something I like, I’ll do something you like. When such a deal is struck, both parties are better off in their own estimation. Dr. Walter E. Williams
May 7, 2003, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20030507.shtml