Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Frederic Bastiat
Frederic Bastiat, Essays on Political Economy (1846) (Quotation varies with translator)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
The Japanese surrendered on the bow [he pronounced it like bow tie
The Japanese surrendered on the ‘bow’ [he pronounced it like ‘bow ‘ tie] of the ‘aircraft carrier’ [instead of the battleship] Missouri. Al Gore
George Putnam on KIEV radio 12:00 to 2:00 P.M. in Glendale California
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This is the time to be morally clear, nothing justifies terrorism. Dan …
This is the time to be morally clear, nothing justifies terrorism. Dan Quayle
Oct 21, 2001, Washington Times
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of …
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 – 1832)
New Hampshire is already a cold place, but the day we pass …
New Hampshire is already a cold place, but the day we pass an income tax we’ll enter hell. And it’ll be an even colder day there. Bob Clegg
New Hampshire state Representative on the attempt to pass an income tax, U.S. News and World Report, April 12, 1999.
People who have a financial stake in the country are a little …
People who have a financial stake in the country are a little more careful in the way they vote. President Gerald Ford
Commenting on the fact that many Baby Boomers have their retirement nest eggs in mutual funds, in Barron’s August 18, 1997
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom …
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison
Speech in the Virginia Convention, June 16, 1788, (1751-1836)
The only investors who need wide diversification are those who do not …
The only investors who need wide diversification are those who do not understand what they are doing. [It] makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing. Warren Buffett
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‘MY BILL … ESTABLISHES A 6-MONTH GRACE PERIOD FOR THE TURNING IN OF ALL HANDGUNS’ U.S. Representative Major Owens Congressional Record 11/10/93’A free people ought..to be armed…’ George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790
Women’s liberationists spread the word that…the only peaceful family is …
Women’s liberationists spread the word that…the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. R. Emmett Tyell
The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984