Saturday, October 31, 2009
the rich
People would rather defend the possibility of becoming rich rather than to admit to their own poverty.
John Hancock
John Hancock
Friday, October 30, 2009
persistence
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
reality
Monday, October 26, 2009
truth
I think well of all skepticism to which I may reply Let us try it. But I no longer want to hear anything of all those things and questions which do not permit experiments. This is the limit of my sense of truth for there courage has lost its rights.
Nietzsche
Nietzsche
Sunday, October 25, 2009
capitalism
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes
Thursday, October 22, 2009
reality
The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities.
Machiavelli
Machiavelli
Sunday, October 18, 2009
simplicity/complexity
Friday, October 16, 2009
tyranny
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
future
Thursday, October 15, 2009
truth
happiness, money
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
probability
Monday, October 12, 2009
legislators
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P J O’rourke
P J O’rourke
power
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
Lord Acton
Sunday, October 11, 2009
corporatism
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
bourgeoisie
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Saturday, October 03, 2009
numbers
Friday, October 02, 2009
wealth
The best condition in life is not to be so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
Josh Billings
Josh Billings
progressive taxation
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
health insurance
Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the effects to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the provision of assistance - where, in short, we deal with genuinely insurable risks - the case for the state's helping to organize comprehensive system of social insurance is strong.
F A Hayek, Road to Serfdom
F A Hayek, Road to Serfdom
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