Top 100 James Cook Quotes
#1. The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.
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#2. Most everything government does is worse than useless.
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#3. The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.
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#4. From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.
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#5. Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.
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#6. The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.
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#7. Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.
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#8. The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.
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#9. If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'
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#10. Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.
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#11. The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.
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#12. With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.
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#13. Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.
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#14. Better to have something to say than to have to say something.
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#16. Once you're in heaven it makes no difference when you got there.
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#17. It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.
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#18. God has the experience that comes from billions of years.
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#19. Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.
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#20. Whatever you subsidize you get more of.
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#21. A free ride is life's most difficult journey.
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#22. That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.
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#24. Doubt makes us reaffirm what we believe.
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#25. Knaves will come and knaves will go.
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#26. Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.
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#27. All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
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#28. The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.
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#29. The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.
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#30. in which great difficulties are found to the present day by Englishmen, whose language presents no certain laws for rendering any given sound into a fixed combination of letters.
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#31. A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.
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#32. There is no help from without, only from within.
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#33. Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.
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#34. Employers know the nature of people best.
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#35. Government is not competent enough to regulate.
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#36. Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.
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#37. There is a reason and not a reason for everything.
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#38. All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.
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#39. You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
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#41. Our religious understanding and beliefs should evolve just like everything else.
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#42. Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.
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#43. The government endangers us with our own money.
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#44. The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.
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#45. Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.
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#46. Nobody heeds danger when they're making money.
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#47. When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.
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#48. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.
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#49. Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.
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#50. The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.
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#51. No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.
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#52. Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
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#53. Give persons who would cheat you every opportunity so you can soon be rid of them.
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#54. Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.
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#55. The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.
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#56. We can never right the wrongs of the past.
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#57. Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.
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#58. Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.
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#59. Never underestimate the incompetence of government.
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#60. Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.
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#61. The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.
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#62. What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.
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#63. Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
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#64. Allowing liberals to manage economic policy is like hiring monkeys to be aircraft mechanics.
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#65. At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.
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#66. There are alternate explanations for everything.
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#67. Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.
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#68. Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.
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#69. Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.
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#70. Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.
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#71. Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.
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#72. Young atheists abound, but old atheists are rare.
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#73. Better to build orphanages than prisons.
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#75. Easier will always win out over harder.
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#76. Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.
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#77. Other than sex, two things bring people together; economic transactions and booze.
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#78. It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.
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#79. We should worry about our own souls first and trust in God's plan for others.
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#80. Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.
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#81. The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.
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#82. Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.
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#83. Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.
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#84. There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?
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#85. To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.
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#86. The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.
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#87. Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.
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#88. The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.
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#89. The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.
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#90. There is nothing very religious about feeling superior to those who don't share your views.
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#91. It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.
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#92. Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.
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#93. You can't suffer over two things at once.
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#94. We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.
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#95. A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.
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#96. The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
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#97. It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.
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#98. The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
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#99. Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.
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#100. The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with.
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