Maxioms Pet

X
  •   9  /  19  

    It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights mean self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg when it is his goose.

Share to:

You May Also Like   /   View all maxioms

  ( comments )
  8  /  18  

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

  ( comments )
  34  /  52  

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from read more

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

  ( comments )
  9  /  21  

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have read more

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

  ( comments )
  7  /  12  

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

  ( comments )
  16  /  29  

By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, read more

By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

  ( comments )
  9  /  22  

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is read more

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.

  ( comments )
  12  /  16  

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

  ( comments )
  12  /  17  

The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.

The more corrupt the State the more numerous the laws.

  ( comments )
  15  /  18  

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two read more

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Maxioms Web Pet