Quotes
"The ten most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help you’."
Ronald Reagan
"The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, 'See, if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk'."
Harry Browne
"I take exception to people saying that Rudd, Gillard, Swan and Tanner are spending like drunken sailors. When I was a drunken sailor, I quit spending when I ran out of money."
Peter Jamieson
"There is nothing so easy to learn from experience, and nothing so hard to apply."
Josh Billings
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
B.F. Skinner
"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution. The only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
Ayn Rand
"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it."
Ronald Reagan
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom."
Albert Einstein
"Mystical references to "society" and its programs to "help" may warm the hearts of the gullible, but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats."
Thomas Sowell
"Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death."
Ayn Rand
"Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?"
PJ O'Rourke
"Combining debt and ignorance always produces interesting results."
Roger Montgomery, Chairman of Clime Captial Limited
"Think tanks are critical to the global ideas industry. They generate and fine-tune solutions to some of the most complex and vexing issues of the day. Leaders around the world need them to provide independent analysis, help set policy agendas, and bridge the gap between knowledge and power. Think tanks may be affiliated, independent institutions or structured as permanent bodies. They often act as a bridge between the academic and policymaking communities."
Thompson Ayodele, IPPA
"First you measure, then you tax! The function of government is to destroy the wealth created in the private sector..."
Ken Shock, Physicist, New Zealand
"What good fortune for those in power that people do not think."
Adolph Hitler
"Local government seems to attract the dregs of our political class. There are young factional hacks from political parties who view local government as well-paid work experience. There are activists who don't know much about government but know they hate ugly new houses spoiling their suburbs' "traditional character". And there are earnest greenies who campaign to declare their council "nuclear-free". Yes, councillors are a bizarre collection of the uninformed, the uninterested and the weirdly over-interested."
Chris Berg
"Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness."
S. Warren Carey
"It is better to correct your own faults than those of another."
Democritus
"I’m not really conservative although I believe in less government, I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t anymore. Consequently, I think the difference in my country, the difference in the parties, is there’s no difference. There are just a lot of people trying to keep their jobs. I’m cynical in that aspect."
Clint Eastwood (as quote in the Weekend Australian Magazine on March 24-25 2007)
"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo
"Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness."
S. Warren Carey
"What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison."
Richard S. Lindzen
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
Edward Abbey
"'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'"
Thomas Jefferson 1802
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
C.S. Lewis
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour."
Vince Lombardi
"This is a period of wealth destruction. The people who make money will be few and far between. There will be a lot more money lost than made."
George Soros
"…economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics."
Ludwig von Mises
"Ideas are more dangerous than guns… We do not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"
Josef Stalin (1879-1953)
"No man is a success unless he has made a woman angry."
Anonymous
"Modern government has become a universal transfer agency that utilizes the political process for distributing vast measures of income and wealth. It preys on millions of victims in order to allocate valuable goods and services to its beneficiaries."
Hans F. Sennholz
"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society."
Thomas Jefferson
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
Herbert Hoover, US President - 1929
"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important."
Eugene McCarthy, US Senator