“Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer”
Ludwig von Mises
“No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
““A nation is the more prosperous today the less it has tried to put obstacles in the way of the spirit of free enterprise and private initiative. The people of the United States are more prosperous than the inhabitants of all other countries because their government embarked later than the governments in other parts of the world upon the policy of obstructing business.” —The Anticapitalistic Mentality”
“The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?”
Benjamin Franklin
“When you "settle" for something it means you get "less" than what you deserve.”
marie katra
“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”
Gian Carlo Menotti
“He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue”
Mark Twain