The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don’t go there they shoot you. P.J. O’Rourke
Our predictive capacity of the specific things which the economic system will do at a particular date is limited in exactly the same fashion in which our biological knowledge is largely limited if our task were to predict what a living organism will do at a particular date. Friedrich Hayek
There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, “Yes,” you know he is a crook. Groucho Marx
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein (attribute)
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. Thomas Jefferson
The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’. Larry Hardiman
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. Shakespeare
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I like the Thomas Jefferson quote that a democracy is nothing more than mob rule. It's what I've been preaching and why we should start calling our country a Free Republic as it was set up.
ReplyDeleteDemocracy versus Republic - there is a difference.
We will see just what Jefferson was talking about with the same sex marriage vote. It is wrong to vote on someone's rights.
ReplyDeleteThat's why our once great Nation was never conceived as a democracy. It was a Constitutional Republic - which guaranteed INDIVIDUAL rights.
ReplyDeleteNow it is gone.
Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. Shakespeare
ReplyDeleteI like that one, and it could apply to a lot of people on here and the boardwalk.