Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-12-06 Dec 5, 2003The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.~ Clarence S. DarrowThe gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.~ Ambrose BierceLottery tickets are the only consumer products actively promoted and sold by the state. The state does not sell toothpaste, or even promote brushing your teeth. But it tells people they should gamble. The main marketing concern is how to attract new players, who otherwise wouldn't gamble.~ I. Nelson Rose Dec 4, 2003The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.~ Anatole FranceYou are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.~ George Bernard ShawMoney, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Dec 3, 2003History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance.~ James MadisonThe common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.~ Ludwig von MisesThere 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 Dec 2, 2003We cannot expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.~ Nikita KhrushchevAmerica is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.~ Josef StalinThe shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.~ Aesop Dec 1, 2003What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven.~ Friedrich Hoelderlin[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.~ James MonroeThe only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.~ Eugene McCarthy Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print