Ignorance Dooms the World « Monty Pelerin's World

Monty Pelerin's World

Economics, Finance and Politics Through The Prism of Classical Liberalism

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P.J. O'Rourke

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one
Thomas Paine
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts
Will Rogers
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman

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