Category: Friday Quote

One of the biggest taxes is one that is not even called a tax – inflation.

When the government spends money that it creates, it is transferring part of the value of your money to themselves.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Each job will pay you twice. Your wage is how you get paid now. Experience is how you get paid in the future.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Because the horror of Communism, Stalimism, is not that bad people do bad things- they always do. It’s that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

Everybody does so, rich or poor, and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions.

Corrected the name per reader Kevin.

“If we want to foster real diversity in higher education, we had better consider not only diversity of identity but also diversity of thought and perspective. It is this kind of diversity that we are supposed to recognize and foster in the first place.”

Learning how to give and take criticism without being hurt is an essential life skill. When serious thinkers respect someone, they are willing to engage them in a thoughtful argument.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if could not have one, I would have the other.

Capitalism reveals everything.

It reveals who works.

It reveals who improves.

It reveals who takes care of their best employees and who doesn’t.

It reveals who’s creative.

It reveals who thinks the biggest.

It reveals who doesn’t want to pull their own little red wagon instead they want you to pull it.