“Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased – not a reduced – flow of revenues to the federal government.” – John F. Kennedy, Jan. 17, 1963, annual budget message to the Congress, fiscal year 1964
Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand
You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
Ayn Rand
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
Frédéric Bastiat
As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796
Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all the wealth of the world was originally purchased
Adam Smith
It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself. – Justice Casey Percell
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. – P. J. O’Rourke
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free. – P.J. O’Rourke