Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-05-20 May 20, 2003It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.~ AeschylusNo government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.~ Edmund BurkeThe work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.~ Igor SikorskyGovernment is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.~ Sen. Phil Gramm May 19, 2003I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.~ Publius Terentius AferThe 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 BonnerIt is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.~ Bertrand Russell May 16, 2003The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.~ Assyrian Tablet May 15, 2003All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.~ George MasonThe dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights... . In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right in property.~ Justice Potter Stewart May 14, 2003Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite; who made ten thousand people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?~ David Lloyd GeorgeThe system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. ~ Friedrich August von HayekI think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print