Today's Quotes

People are tired of liberty.
They have had a surfeit of it.
Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin...
Today’s youth are moved by other slogans...
Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
-- Benito Mussolini
(1883-1945), Italian dictator during WW2
Source: Speech, March 1923

I, however, place economy among the first
and most important republican virtues,
and public debt as the greatest
of the dangers to be feared.
-- Thomas Jefferson

By virtue of exchange,
one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.
-- Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848
Source: his book, Economic Harmonies

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are
an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses,
subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to
employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the
right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the
aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal
plunder, that goes under the name of socialism.
-- Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848
Source: Essays, 61