Quote of the Day

“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work.”

~ Milton Friedman

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“Man must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.”

~ Josiah C. Wedgwood

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“Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.”

~ Albanian Proverb

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“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”

~ Edward R. Murrow

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“The ‘private sector’ of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the ‘public sector’ is, in fact, the coercive sector”

~ Henry Hazlitt

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“A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.”

~ Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

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“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”

~ Richard Feynman

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“Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.”

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

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“Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else’s parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds.”

~ Milton Friedman

Quote of the Day

“Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.”

~ Paul Samuelson