Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Free to Choose

When a bunch of screwy ideas are floating around the news, and the media is shouting "crisis" everyday...sometimes you've gotta latch on to something that makes a little bit of sense. Sometimes that means a trip back to the 80's. If highlighting your big mullet doesn't do it for you, and you've already listened to "Pour Some Sugar on Me" while watching C-SPAN and noticing that Nancy Pelosi really is a Twisted Sister, aaaaaaaand you've already had 3 bowls of Wheaties and played a round of Asteroids...well, then it might be time to hang with Milton Friedman for a little while.

You'll notice while watching this video, especially the dialogue towards the end, the amazing degree to which some things don't change over a 20-30 year period of time. More evidence that history repeats itself which is why it's so important to know a little.

Click here to watch an excellent video series by Nobel Prize winning common sense economist, Milton Friedman. If you ever want to return to watch it again or watch more later cuz it's kinda long, you can go straight to it by clicking the link to the right that says "Friedman..." under "Links to Reality".

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