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Notable Quotes

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03/25/12 ‘Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.’ H. L. Mencken H. L. Mencken
02/23/12 ‘I am more and more of the opinion that Keynes is a scientific charlatan, and his followers not even that.’ Oskar Morgenstern Oskar Morgenstern
01/12/12 ‘That dreary tribe ... who come nocking towards the smell of 'progress' like bluebottles to a dead cat.’ George Orwell George Orwell
12/18/11 ‘I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back.’ Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy
11/15/11 ‘Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.’ Frank Zappa Frank Zappa
10/08/11 ‘The first and the hardest step is to see that we now find ourselves in a desert, and not in an enchanted forest.’ Peter Thiel Peter Thiel
09/27/11 ‘The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.’ Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher
09/27/11 ‘'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.’ F. A. Hayek F. A. Hayek, Friedrich Hayek
09/20/11 ‘Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man.’ Robert A. Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein
09/10/11 ‘We did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.'’ Paul Volcker Paul Volcker
09/09/11 ‘The beauty about [Social Security] is that it is actuarially unsound. Everyone who reaches retirement age is given benefit privileges that far exceed anything he has paid in.’ Paul Samuelson Charles Ponzi, Paul Samuelson
09/09/11 ‘Not Every Human Problem Deserves a Law’ Jerry Brown Governor Jerry Brown
09/07/11 ‘If the euro collapses, Europe collapses.’ German Chancellor Angela Merkel Angela Merkel
09/05/11 ‘They have created, in the disguise of what most citizens consider a college education, a vast system of unimaginative vocational training’ William Appleman Williams William Appleman Williams
09/05/11 ‘I think it’s time to declare “peak BS”; the moment the production of BS cannot conceivably go any higher and future BS production will dwindle until mankind runs out of BS.’ "DirkH"
09/03/11 ‘They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters.’ Daniel Webster Daniel Webster
09/03/11 ‘There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.’ John Adams John Adams
08/30/11 ‘We have to destroy education in order to save it.’ "Zombie"
08/29/11 ‘The anti HFT moral panic is a naked power grab by large firms who don’t want to have to compete with the small businessman.’ Scott Locklin Scott Locklin
08/29/11 ‘The motivation of the bullshitter is not to say things that are true or even to say things that are false, but in serving some other purpose.’ Harry G. Frankfurt Al Gore, Harry G. Frankfurt
08/29/11 ‘The real answer was much simpler; create more money. When FDR did this to fund the destruction of Europe and Japan, the economy finally got better.’ Scott Locklin Scott Locklin
08/28/11 ‘After all, lending money is an investment and comes with risk. This is why you earn a return; removing risk makes it not an investment at all but rather a tax.’ Karl Denninger Karl Denninger
08/27/11 ‘The intellectual wants the whole society to be a school writ large, to be like the environment where he did so well and was so well appreciated.’ Robert Nozick Robert Nozick
08/24/11 ‘The USA is a dead man walking economically and the zombie simply needs to be put down before it does more damage to its people and Earth.’ Bill Buppert Bill Buppert
08/21/11 ‘He owes no such duty to the State, since he receives nothing therefrom beyond the protection of his life and property.’ United States Supreme Court
08/19/11 ‘To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.’ Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson
08/19/11 ‘But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it.’ Lysander Spooner Lysander Spooner
08/17/11 ‘There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.’ Ludwig von Mises Ludwig von Mises
08/17/11 ‘The mother of all Keynesian contractions is coming in 2013 -- when all these tax cuts expire, when all this stimulus is gone.’ David Stockman David Stockman
08/17/11 ‘Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value — zero.’ Voltaire Voltaire