Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-11-10 Nov 10, 2008When a government takes over a people’s economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs.~ Maxwell AndersonA depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.~ Nathaniel BrandenI hate this "crime doesn't pay" stuff. Crime in the U.S. is perhaps one of the biggest businesses in the world today.~ Paul Kirk Nov 7, 2008Subsidies entail politicians’ taking the citizen’s paycheck and then using it to buy his submission.~ James BovardFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.~ George WashingtonPoliticians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money.~ Joseph Sobran Nov 6, 2008In 1950, the average family of four paid 2% of its earnings to federal taxes. Today it pays 24%.~ William R. Mattox, Jr.Gold is not neccesary. I have no interest in gold. We will build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration camp. That's the bastion of money.~ Adolf HitlerWhen through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed...~ Civil Servants' Year BookThere are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.~ Franklin P. Adams Nov 5, 2008When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.~ Clarence S. DarrowI could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.~ Thomas JeffersonI don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.~ William Marcy Tweed Nov 4, 2008We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.~ Woody AllenTreason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.~ Sir John HaringtonThe devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!~ Charles Baudelaire Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print