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Never underestimate the totality of chaos and betrayal that comes through currency debasement.
From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.
The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.
Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.
Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.
All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.
To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.
All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.
Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.
Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.
Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.
The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.
Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.
When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.
The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.
Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.
I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'
The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.
Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.
The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.
Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.
We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.
Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?
At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.
A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.
Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.
From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but
What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.
Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.
Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.
Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.
Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.
Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.
What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.