Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. Douglas Casey
-1992
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
I’m not in favor of cutting anybody’s earnings or preventing …
I’m not in favor of cutting anybody’s earnings or preventing them from rising, but I am against them losing their jobs because of artificial government intervention, which is essentially what the minimum wage is. Alan Greenspan
Fed Chairman, July 18, 2001
If ignorance is bliss then knock the smile off my face zack …
If ignorance is bliss then knock the smile off my face zack de la rocha
settle for nothing, by the band ‘rage against the machine’
Collectivism doesn’t work because it’s based on a faulty economic …
Collectivism doesn’t work because it’s based on a faulty economicpremise. There is no such thing as a person’s ‘fair share’ of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided becauseif I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless. P.J. O’Rourke
(1947- 2022)
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[T]here is true evil. People who don’t think that the Devil walks this earth have not seen the things I’ve see. I know through experiences that there are people out there who believe that they have the right to do whatever they like to whomever they choose….These people are not insane. They’re as sane as you and me. But they don’t live by the rules of any moral code, at least not one within human society. They are so incredibly selfish that they live only by their own rules. And these people are horribly, horribly evil. Dr. Wright
in Tears of Rage, John Walsh, on the killer of Adam Walsh
a form of insanity . . . which will one day disappear from the earth. …
a form of insanity . . . which will one day disappear from the earth. Ronald Reagan
On communism, in a 1975 radio broadcast
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[T]hat in the new government, as in the old, the general [i.e., federal] powers are limited; and that the States, in all unenumerated cases, are left in the enjoyment of their sovereign and independent jurisdiction. James Madison
Federalist No. 40
In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist …
In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. Theodore Roosevelt
(26th President of the United States, 1858-1919)
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’a …
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’a then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh
Under that provision no state can deprive any person of life, liberty, …
Under that provision no state can deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The right to purchase or to sell labor is part of the liberty protected by this amendment, unless there are circumstances which exclude the right. US Supreme Court
Lochner v New York, 98 U.S. 45 (1905)