Quotes About James Cook

#1. I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

John C. Reilly

#2. Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.

Julie Murphy

#3. Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

James Cook

#4. I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea.

James Cook

#5. The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.

James Cook

#6. Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

James Cook

#7. Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

James Cook

#8. Time flies when you're running out of money.

James Cook

#9. Most everything government does is worse than useless.

James Cook

#10. Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.

James Cook

#11. When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

James Cook

#12. The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

James Cook

#13. From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

James Cook

#14. Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.

James Cook

#15. The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

James Cook

#16. 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.

James Cook

#17. In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.

James Cook

#18. The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

James Cook

#19. Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

James Cook

#20. 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.'

James Cook

#21. No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

James Cook

#22. It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith.

James Cook

#23. Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.

James Cook

#24. The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

James Cook

#25. When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

James Cook

#26. With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

James Cook

#27. The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

James Cook

#28. People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.

James Cook

#29. Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

James Cook

#30. Depression is an emotion for which I have not the time, nor the inclination, to expend my mental resources," I say flatly.

James N. Cook

#31. Better to have something to say than to have to say something.

James Cook

#32. Faith must be worked at.

James Cook

#33. Once you're in heaven it makes no difference when you got there.

James Cook

#34. It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

James Cook

#35. God has the experience that comes from billions of years.

James Cook

#36. Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.

James Cook

#37. Good times weaken belief.

James Cook

#38. Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

James Cook

#39. Whatever you subsidize you get more of.

James Cook

#40. The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

James Cook

#41. People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

James Cook

#42. Money could never have originated as paper.

James Cook

#43. Enough experience will make you wise.

James R Cook

#44. From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but

James Cook

#45. A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

James Cook

#46. That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

James Cook

#47. Everybody lives an epic.

James Cook

#48. Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

James Cook

#49. Doubt makes us reaffirm what we believe.

James Cook

#50. Knaves will come and knaves will go.

James Cook

#51. Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

James Cook

#52. Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

James Cook

#53. What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.

James Cook

#54. The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

James Cook

#55. What is written is more influential than what is said.

James Cook

#56. Advice from others is always filtered through self interest.

James Cook

#57. You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

James R Cook

#58. The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

James Cook

#59. All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

James Cook

#60. The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

James Cook

#61. To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

James Cook

#62. Here we raise his children for him, cook for him, bring up his crops, butcher his hogs - even fight his wars for him - and he still won't acknowledge our existence.

James Sallis

#63. Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

James Cook

#64. Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

James Cook

#65. You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

James Cook

#66. 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.

James Cook

#67. The Dick tells us that Denny once worked on some arson cases, but I'd wager a mortgage payment that those cases took place when you created fire by rubbing two sticks together so you could cook the stegosaurus you killed with a spear and dragged back to the cave.

James Patterson

#68. A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

James Cook

#69. Government regulators are another name for police.

James Cook

#70. Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

James Cook

#71. 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.

James Cook

#72. Investors believe in the best possible outcome.

James Cook

#73. 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.

James Cook

#74. Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

James Cook

#75. There is no help from without, only from within.

James Cook

#76. Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

James Cook

#77. Suffering perfects the soul.

James Cook

#78. Employers know the nature of people best.

James Cook

#79. No resource will flourish if managed by government.

James Cook

#80. The more welfare, the more crime.

James Cook

#81. Without memory there are no worries.

James Cook

#82. Getting is more fun than having.

James Cook

#83. Government is not competent enough to regulate.

James Cook

#84. Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

James Cook

#85. In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

James Cook

#86. The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

James Cook

#87. There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

James Cook

#88. Think too much and you start to panic. Better to keep moving.

James N. Cook

#89. Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

James Cook

#90. Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

James Cook

#91. All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

James Cook

#92. Struggle is the architect of the soul.

James Cook

#93. You can't think in sound bytes.

James Cook

#94. You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.

James Cook

#95. When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.

James Cook

#96. The Hollywood left insists on painting business persons as arch criminals, even though it's ridiculous. They like to depict free enterprise, capitalism and business leaders as a source of evil and criminality. Somehow they think that will influence enough people to further their left-wing agenda.

James Cook

#97. When you are aggrieved you learn.

James Cook

#98. Our religious understanding and beliefs should evolve just like everything else.

James Cook

#99. Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.

James Cook

#100. The government endangers us with our own money.

James Cook