‘My country right or wrong’ is like saying ‘my mother drunk or sober’ G.K.Chesterton
Are you seriously suggesting we rely on the same government that confiscates …
Are you seriously suggesting we rely on the same government that confiscates 40% of your earnings to simultaneously subsidize tobacco farmers, subsidize cancer research, violate cigarette companies’ free speech rights, extort revenues from those companies’ cigarette sales, prohibit you from smoking those cigarettes on your own property, yet buy those same cigarettes for sale to juvenile prisoners in government facilities you also paid for? Are you kidding? Tom Isenberg
Tom Isenberg of Microsoft (although not speaking for them)
A sure sign of a genius is that all of the dunces …
A sure sign of a genius is that all of the dunces are in a confederacy against him. Frank Lloyd Wright
This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a …
This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Western Union, internal memo, 1876
How do people live without working? Millions in the bottom 20 percent …
How do people live without working? Millions in the bottom 20 percent live on the money earned by other people who do work and whose income gets taxed to pay for the non-workers. In addition, more than 4 million families in the bottom fifth in income live on property income and nearly 6 million live on various forms of retirement income, including Social Security. (Table FINC-06, for those who demand proof only from those they disagree with.) Thomas Sowell
May 2, 2003
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are …
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights areheld in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.All initiation of force is a violation of someone else’s rights, whether initiated by anindividual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals,even if it’s supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals. Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required inself-defense. Ron Paul
M.D., US Representative ( Texas – R )
If you want to redistribute wealth, you liberals, why don’t you …
If you want to redistribute wealth, you liberals, why don’t you go out and earn it and give it away. Redistribute your own wealth. Scott McNealy
Sun Microsystems Chairman, Reason, June 1997
Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as …
Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation. Karl Marx
1848 author of “The Communist Manifesto”
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. Benjamin …
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance. Benjamin Disraeli
British Prime Minister (1874-1880), author, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1804-1881
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[A]n economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. Surely the lesson of the last decade is that budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all budget deficit records.In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low. And the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now. John F. Kennedy
Economic Club of New York, December 14, 1962 on supply side taxes cuts [the full out-take is in the database], 35th President of the United States, 1961-1963 (1917-1963)