Thomas E. Woods Jr. Quotes

#1. The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one.

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#2. In the nineteenth century there was no such thing as retirement,

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#3. Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

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#4. No one forces you to buy a Twinkie. But governments do force you to fight in their wars and pay for their bailouts.

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#5. If the federal government is an addict, then the Federal Reserve System is its enabler.

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#6. Reagan has become the Right's Obama: a man whose every action is to be treated as ipso facto brilliant, perhaps even divinely inspired.

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#7. Libertarianism is "cultish," say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc.

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#8. The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

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#9. It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

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#10. stock market as measured by the Dow did decrease 25% between 1969 and 1971

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#11. The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

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#12. The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power.

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#13. Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.

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#14. The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange
all sponsored by the Church
provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.

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#15. Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

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#16. a society that hopes to foster both justice and prosperity needs to discourage wealth acquisition via the political means and encourage it through the economic means.

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#17. what remotely educated or even half-conscious living being could consider John McCain a fit candidate for anything?

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#18. Marx set forth a classic statement of inherent class antagonism on the market

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#19. We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live.

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#20. The people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours.

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#21. Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn't know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian.

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#22. No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is.

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#23. The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.

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#24. Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

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#25. The dollar has lost over 95 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

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#26. Was U.S. entry into World War I such an act of genius that criticizing it is necessarily perverse?

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#27. (Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers of every stripe, and looked after the lost and shipwrecked.

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#28. The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church.

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#29. Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

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#30. It is only with government help - in the form of subsidies, restrictions on potential rivals, and the like - that business can "exploit" the public in any meaningful sense. That

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#31. Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.

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#32. The greatest gains against poverty in the United States occurred when government was least involved.

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