Give me quotes or give me death!
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RoyalOrleans
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The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity. - Alan Keyes
hugo
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Milton Friedman Quotes:
"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."
"Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property."
"Governments never learn. Only people learn."
"So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not"
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."
"Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."
"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
"What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system"
"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."
"The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both."
"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."
"Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property."
"Governments never learn. Only people learn."
"So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not"
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom."
"Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."
"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
"What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system"
"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."
"The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both."
Ahhlee
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"Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear for the future." - Fulton Oursler
"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly." - Antisthenes
"Half of life is fukking up. The other half is dealing with it." - Henry Rollins
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
"You really know you love someone when all you want is for them to be happy, even if that means that you are not a part of their joy." - ?
"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly." - Antisthenes
"Half of life is fukking up. The other half is dealing with it." - Henry Rollins
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
"You really know you love someone when all you want is for them to be happy, even if that means that you are not a part of their joy." - ?
Ahhlee
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I just added them to my shopping list.
I know someone once was talking about "Even CowGirls Get the Blues" and she loved it!
Cool!
I still haven't read my "***, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs" by Chuck Klosterman (an area native) and I think it's going to be a great read. I'll recommend it to you if it is.
ImWithStupid
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What they are trying to do is to create an America very unlike the America that has existed for centuries ? the America that people have been attracted to by the millions from every part of the world, the America that many generations of Americans have fought and died for.
This is the America about which Michelle Obama expressed her resentment before it became politically expedient to keep quiet.
It is the America that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright denounced in his sermons during the 20 years when Barack Obama was his parishioner, before political expediency required Obama to withdraw and distance himself.
The thing most associated with America ? freedom ? is precisely what must be destroyed if this is to be turned into a fundamentally different country to suit Obama?s vision of the country and of himself. ~ Thomas Sowell
This is the America about which Michelle Obama expressed her resentment before it became politically expedient to keep quiet.
It is the America that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright denounced in his sermons during the 20 years when Barack Obama was his parishioner, before political expediency required Obama to withdraw and distance himself.
The thing most associated with America ? freedom ? is precisely what must be destroyed if this is to be turned into a fundamentally different country to suit Obama?s vision of the country and of himself. ~ Thomas Sowell
ImWithStupid
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ~ C. S. Lewis
hugo
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"Once one accepts the principle of self-ownership, what's moral and immoral becomes self-evident. Murder is immoral because it violates private property. Rape and theft are also immoral -- they also violate private property. Here's an important question: Would rape become morally acceptable if Congress passed a law legalizing it? You say: "What's wrong with you, Williams? Rape is immoral plain and simple, no matter what Congress says or does!" If you take that position, isn't it just as immoral when Congress legalizes the taking of one person's earnings to give to another? Surely if a private person took money from one person and gave it to another, we'd deem it theft and, as such, immoral. Does the same act become moral when Congress takes people's money to give to farmers, airline companies or an impoverished family? No, it's still theft, but with an important difference: It's legal, and participants aren't jailed." -- Walter Williams
hugo
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Frederic Bastiat quotes:
?Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.?
?Each of us has a natural right, from ***, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.?
?Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.?
?Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.?
?Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.?
?Each of us has a natural right, from ***, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.?
?Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.?
?Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.?
Ahhlee
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"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest things we know. A friend is the first person who comes in when the rest of the world has gone out."
"Spiteful words can hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart."
"Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything...whatever it is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out." - Tina Turner
"Spiteful words can hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart."
"Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything...whatever it is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out." - Tina Turner
ImWithStupid
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Right now, if insurance companies are unfair in their practice and coverage of claims you can appeal to the government to make sure they are not being unfair.
When the government IS the insurance company, who do you appeal to? ~ IWS
When the government IS the insurance company, who do you appeal to? ~ IWS