Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-01-26 Jan 26, 2024We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.~ Adolf HitlerSocialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money.~ Margaret ThatcherA large number of people, certainly the majority of the political looter class, think the best way to deal with the rapidly deepening economic crisis is via 'stimulus packages' with money plucked off the magic money tree... which is to say, by trying to re-inflate the credit bubble that actually caused the crisis. This is a bit like treating alcoholics by urging them to buy more whiskey.~ Perry de Havilland Jan 25, 2024The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.~ PlutarchDemocracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.~ Karl MarxEvery government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.~ Ayn Rand 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print