Quote(s) of the Day

Editor's Note: These quotes are "Random Observations" from the web site, Monty Pelerin's World.  RK 

• [Government] ... the irresponsible mercurial collective decisions of 'public' men or women who control other people's resources but are ultimately impelled, like the rest of fallible mankind, to put their personal interests first. Arthur Seldon
• A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. James Madison
• We are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them. William L. Comer
• One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. Thomas B. Reed (1886) Hence fascism's odd fusion of privilege and folksiness; one might call it a movement that thinks like Halliburton and talks like George W. Bush. Roderick T. Long
• To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson
• Democracy ends in bankruptcy just as certainly as life ends in death. Monty Pelerin