Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-03-29 Mar 27, 2009I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.~ Thomas JeffersonA man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.~ John BarrymoreWhen buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.~ P. J. O'Rourke Mar 26, 2009The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.~ John Kenneth GalbraithThe issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.~ Lord ActonWhen a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.~ Napoleon Bonaparte Mar 25, 2009For the average American family, filling out a tax form has become like attacking a puzzle to which, often enough, there is no right answer. But we're all supposed to swear, on penalty of perjury, that we've done our best to find it.~ Paul GreenbergIf you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today.~ Thomas SowellThe difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.~ Will Rogers Mar 24, 2009People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.~ George Bernard ShawThat man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.~ Henry David ThoreauThe common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.~ Ludwig von Mises Mar 23, 2009Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.~ H. L. MenckenLiberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.~ Joseph SobranThe main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.~ Sir Winston Churchill Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print