Pugsley Quotes

#1. Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

John Pugsley

#2. I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

John Pugsley

#3. All of political history history can be summed up as a struggle to throw the bad guys out and put the good guys in.

John Pugsley

#4. Monopoly power is an illusion in any system in which free competition is allowed.

John Pugsley

#5. Peace and prosperity are inversely proportional to the level of taxation.

John Pugsley

#6. Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

John Pugsley

#7. Governments steal from citizens through taxes and through the subterfuge of monetizing their own IOUs.

John Pugsley

#8. I sometimes think of people's personalities as the negative space around their insecurities.

Lindy West

#9. The consumer gets the best deal when the product is cheapest, and the product is cheapest when people can freely compete in the market place.

John Pugsley

#10. You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

Amy Heckerling

#11. Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

John Pugsley

#12. Only in situations where competition is illegal will competition not act naturally to bring the best product at the lowest price to the consumer.

John Pugsley

#13. Human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

John Pugsley

#14. Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.

A. J. Jacobs

#15. I'm not afraid to be alone like you are.

Courtney Summers

#16. The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

Nancy Gibbs

#17. If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong.
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David Carradine

#18. I'm no relation to Lillian or Dorothy Gish. Not even way back. But when I first became interested in acting, I wrote a letter to Lillian Gish. She wrote back, discouraging me from entering the business.

Annabeth Gish

#19. Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result.

John Pugsley

#20. When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen are all of the property, business, and jobs that would have been created if citizens were left with the right to choose.

John Pugsley

#21. How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

John Pugsley