"If you have ever seen a four-year-old..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.
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“People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and nothing about economics unhesi.”
“It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.”
“The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.”
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“But old fools is the biggest fools there is.”
“We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.”
“The most difficult thing about being humble is not being able to brag about it.”
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“It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.”
“Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.”
“Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children.”