Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 11:02 AM - quoteFoo
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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Friday, March 13, 2009, 06:40 PM - quoteFoo
Of no little importance to a prince is his choice of ministers, who are good or bad according to the prince’s intelligence. In forming an opinion about a ruler’s brains, the first thing is to look at the men he has around him, for when they are adequate and loyal he can be considered prudent, because he recognizes those who are competent and keeps them loyal. When they are otherwise, the prince is always to be estimated low, because the first error he makes, he makes in choosing advisers.
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Monday, February 23, 2009, 08:12 PM - quoteFoo
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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Monday, February 23, 2009, 12:29 PM - quoteFoo
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 05:24 PM - quoteFoo
It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
~The Fountainhead, 1943
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 12:28 PM - quoteFoo
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
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Friday, November 7, 2008, 08:25 PM - quoteFoo
Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 05:56 PM - quoteFoo
During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 01:52 PM - quoteFoo
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 12:57 PM - quoteFoo
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 06:56 PM - quoteFoo
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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Monday, June 9, 2008, 05:21 PM - quoteFoo
Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.
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