James Cook Quotes
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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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The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.
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When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.
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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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When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.
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Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.
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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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If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'
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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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Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.
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Without memory there are no worries.
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The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
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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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A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.
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Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.
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From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.
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You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.
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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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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 power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.
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When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.
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In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.
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The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.