Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-04-14 Apr 13, 2012A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.~ Milton FriedmanIf you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.~ Milton FriedmanIt's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else. Most of the arrests for drugs are for possession by casual users. Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I think it's absolutely disgraceful that our government, supposed to be our government, should be in the position of converting people who are not harming others into criminals, of destroying their lives, putting them in jail. That's the issue to me. The economic issue comes in only for explaining why it has those effects. But the economic reasons are not the reasons.~ Milton Friedman Apr 12, 2012In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.~ John LillyJustice is incidental to law and order.~ J. Edgar HooverI have been up to see Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.~ Robert E. Lee Apr 11, 2012For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.~ Bob WellsDon’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.~ Dwight D. EisenhowerThere is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.~ Justice Antonin Scalia Apr 10, 2012[I]n the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. ~ Adolf HitlerAmerica is in trouble... not from without, but from within! The Central Government has become too powerful. Citizens fear the Government. This is wrong. This is dangerous! I know the Government covered-up and promulgated LIES about Waco, Ruby Ridge, Pan Am Flight 103, Hoffa, and J.F.K. The Government knew I was right when I called Janet Reno a traitor. Janet Reno sold us out when she refused to investigate a $10-million payoff to the Democratic Party from a general in the Red Chinese Army (no less!). Think about it! And the Government knew that I had known why Reno was forced to betray America! I’m proud that I tried to do something about it! Someday the truth will come out. (I hope China never attacks us!)~ James A. Traficant, Jr.A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.~ Solon Apr 9, 2012Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.~ Leo Nikolaevich TolstoiMost people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.~ Robert C. SavageMen are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for how their acts are defined. This is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in behaving themselves.~ Thomas Szasz Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print