Isn’t it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously. Cincinnati Enquirer
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much …
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions. Thomas Jefferson
1785, Investor’s Business Daily, September 15, 1998
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Thomas Jefferson Summary …
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Summary View of the Rights of British America., Thomas Jefferson, 1774. (1743-1826).
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one’s …
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one’s weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. Robyn Davidson
Tracks
I work for nothing but my own profit — which I make by …
I work for nothing but my own profit — which I make by selling a product they need to men who are willing and able to buy it. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
The only difference between the politics of liberalism and the politics of …
The only difference between the politics of liberalism and the politics of hate is the packaging and delivery method. Gerry Hildenbrand
Sighted Sub, Sank Same. Donald Francis Mason Message sent by an enlisted …
Sighted Sub, Sank Same.
Donald Francis Mason
Message sent by an enlisted pilot, AMM 1/c Donald Francis Mason, on 28 January 1942. Mason believed that he had sunk a German U-boat off Argentia, Newfoundland.
People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging …
People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’ Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work. L. Neil Smith
The Probability Broach
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on everything … …
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on everything … are one of the greatest curses that can afflict people. Brooks Adams
writer-historian and grandson of President John Quincy Adams (1878)
The surplus is not the government’s money. The surplus is the …
The surplus is not the government’s money. The surplus is the people’s money. George W. Bush
August 3, 2000, Philadelphia, PA.