Mises Institute Quotes

#1. There's a long tradition of teen comedies where the kids are getting drunk on beer and whatever else, so smoking a joint to me is no worse than having a beer. So, if someone has a problem with it, I'll just tell them to relax.

James Franco

#2. I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

Donald Ray Pollock

#3. I think you should celebrate whenever you can. Take that momentary feeling of being lucky, that feeling of being on the right track, and enjoy it. It won't last.

Kate Morgenroth

#4. The market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream of all of history, this coming of heaven on earth and call it decadent and dangerous.

Jeffrey Tucker

#5. In the beginning God made the seas, the mountains, the heavens, and buffalo knees. He made lilies, and dew drops, and snail shells, and roses, and dippers, and yappers, and snappers, and noses.

Lois Greiman

#6. Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

Will Cuppy

#7. Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

Vin Scully

#8. I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army!

George S. Patton

#9. Love is the most mysterious force in the universe.
It locks two souls together across space and time.
Once that spark is ignited it consumes all else.
It was that shard of light that transformed a dark soul forever.
Now let that love burn bright like a sun for eternity ...

Kion Ahadi

#10. We really don't get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

Jeffrey Tucker

#11. The government never minds having more power, and is always prepared to paper over the problems it creates. An economy not bludgeoned by powerful elites is the ideal we should seek, even if it has a name that is wildly unpopular: capitalism

Jeffrey Tucker

#12. What are you gonna do?" I whispered.
"I'm gonna do whatever I have to do to protect Luke while he does whatever the fuck he wants to do.

Kristen Ashley

#13. [T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton

#14. There's nobody bigger or better at the military than I am.

Donald Trump

#15. The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.

Wes Moore