James Cook Quotes
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Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.
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When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.
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The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
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Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.
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The government is worst which governs most.
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Money could never have originated as paper.
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Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.
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We are coerced into faith by our suffering.
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Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
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Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.
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Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.
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To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.
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It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.
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Give persons who would cheat you every opportunity so you can soon be rid of them.
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The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.
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It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.
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No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
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Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.
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When you are aggrieved you learn.
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People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.
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Easier will always win out over harder.
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The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.
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It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.
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It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.