Today's Quotes ...

"The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not."
- Fredrich August von Hayek


"In 1950, the average family of four paid 2% of its earnings to federal taxes. Today it pays 24%."
-- William R. Mattox, Jr.
Columnist


"Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
Source: Journal, 1839


"Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer"
- Ludwig von Mises


"Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions"
- Barry Asmus


Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.
- Ludwig von Mises


"What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you."
- Ludwig von Mises