James Cook Quotes
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Whatever you subsidize you get more of.
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Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.
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Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.
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Taxes are a penalty on progress.
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Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
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Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.
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Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.
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The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.
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Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.
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Good times weaken belief.
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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.
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Inequality promotes progress.
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Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
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Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.
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The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.
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The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
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The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
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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.
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Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.
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You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
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Better to build orphanages than prisons.
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Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.
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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.
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Without memory there are no worries.