06/17/2013
06/04/2013
A nation is the more prosperous today the less it has tried to put obstacles in the way of the spirit of free enterprise and private initiative.
- Ludwig von Mises
06/03/2013
But if we provide encouragement for laziness, and supports for folly, may we not be found fighting against the order of God and nature… as proper punishments for, and cautions against... idleness and extravagance?
- Ben Franklin
06/02/2013
There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others. - Thomas Hobbes
05/31/2013
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts.
- Patrick Henry, 1775
05/29/2013
Democracy will have to learn that it must pay for its own follies and it cannot draw unlimited checks on the future to solve its present problems.
- F A Hayek
05/28/2013
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
– Thomas Sowell
05/24/2013
The argument for liberty…is indeed an argument for principles and against expediency in collective action.
- F A Hayek
