I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. |
No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger |
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy. |
In a society of supersophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. |
Ah, the perks of Socialism. You get to be righteous with no accountability. |
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. |
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good. |
A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. |
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. |
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. |