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The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes read more
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually read more
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil read more
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million read more
Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only read more
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.