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

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Brilliant

Read article by Walter Williams, "Prosperity Lost".

1 comment:

  1. An excellent review of the inefficiencies of taxes, written in plain English. I like it a lot. Taxes may be inevitable, but higher taxes are illogical and always have been. Basic economics (and the Laffer Curve) say that if taxes are low, government tax revenue will be high.

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