James Cook Quotes
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Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.
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A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.
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The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
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Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.
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The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.
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We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.
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Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.
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Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.
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Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.
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The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.
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When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.
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Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.
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Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.
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From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.
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What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.
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From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but
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The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.
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When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.
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The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.
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In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.
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When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.
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Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.
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The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
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Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.