Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2011-03-21 Mar 21, 2011Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.~ Adam SmithThe only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of justice and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.~ Algernon SidneyThe tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.~ Paul Craig Roberts Mar 18, 2011All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management.~ Franklin D. RooseveltIt is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.~ George MeanyDon't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.~ Jimmy Hoffa Mar 17, 2011The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. It forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.~ Milton FriedmanThe unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.~ Milton FriedmanWith respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.~ Milton Friedman Mar 16, 2011The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.~ Ronald ReaganThere is no expedient to which the average person will not go to avoid the hard work of thinking.~ Thomas A. EdisonHe who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it 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.~ Thomas Jefferson Mar 15, 2011If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.~ James MadisonUnder God we are determined that, wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever, we shall be called upon to make our exit, we will die freemen.~ Josiah Quincy, Jr.For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.~ Richard Feynman Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print