Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-01-24 Jan 24, 2024The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.~ Bill BonnerAnyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.~ Kenneth BouldingWhy is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?~ Neal Boortz Jan 23, 2024[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today’s social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run the economy by decree from Washington only exacerbates the problems. Consider the minimum wage. It seems so simple: Tell business to pay its workers more. But a hike in the minimum wage is essentially a tax, punishing precisely those companies that hire workers with the least skills.~ Doug BandowThere 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. AdamsThe consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.~ John Adams Jan 22, 2024I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.~ Grover ClevelandWhat is right and what is practicable are two different things.~ James BuchananAccording to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American’s output—which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American’s living standard would at least double.~ Paul Craig Roberts Jan 19, 2024Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.~ Albert CamusLogic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.~ Ambrose BierceFear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Jan 18, 2024Let me explain this. There are, fundamentally, only two causes of the progress of the nineteenth century -- the same two causes which you will find at the root of any happy, benevolent, progressive era in human history. One cause is psychological, the other existential -- or: one pertains to man's consciousness, the other to the physical conditions of his existence. The first is reason, the second is freedom. And when I say "freedom," I do not mean poetic sloppiness, such as "freedom from want" or "freedom from fear" or "freedom from the necessity of earning a living." I mean "freedom from compulsion -- freedom from rule by physical force." Which means: political freedom. ~ Ayn RandLiberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.~ James A. GarfieldBe assured that if this new provision [the 14th Amendment] be engrafted in the Constitution, it will, in time, change the entire structure and texture of our government, and sweep away all the guarantees of safety devised and provided by our patriotic Sires of the Revolution.~ Orville Browning Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print