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You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging
A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.
My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.
That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.
I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.
The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.
The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process
A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.
I do know that there are down-ballot people who have run on the Green Party, and some have been successful.
The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.
Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.
By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.
Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.
All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.
Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.
In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached.
The Nobel Prize is going to be 'fun money' - for an occasion, when my wife and I want a $50 bottle of wine.
Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.
No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.
Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.
Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.
The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.
As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.
...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.
For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.
Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.