James Cook Quotes
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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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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 only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.
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To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
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Suffering perfects the soul.
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Prayer is futility when compared to belief.
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Beware the person who is on a hot streak.
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The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.
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The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.
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All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
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Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.
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Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.
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Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.
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Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
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A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.
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Socialism was made to order for tyrants.
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The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.
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Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.
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I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.