Sheldon Richman Quotes

#1. The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

Sheldon Richman

#2. The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

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#3. Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

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#4. We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

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#5. I'm very cheap. My friends hate me.

Tyler James Williams

#6. Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

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#7. I was a tall, sandy-blond Northern California kid. Tommy, meanwhile, appeared to have been grown somewhere dark and moist.

Greg Sestero

#8. Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.

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#9. People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts ... There's a simple way to keep money out of politics: Keep politics out of our money.

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#10. There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

Kathleen Norris

#11. The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

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#12. The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

Antonin Scalia

#13. We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.

Pythagoras

#14. The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

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#15. No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

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#16. Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

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#17. It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

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#18. I've changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I've cut my hair. I've got a bit of pink in it and lately I've become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white.

Ellie Goulding

#19. In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.

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#20. I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to offer.

Darren Fletcher

#21. Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.

Confucius

#22. The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

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#23. If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax.

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#24. I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!

Nick Carter

#25. I'd be lying if I said, 'No,' to wanting a lot of kids.

Gisele Bundchen

#26. And in his third essay Herodius (not Herodotus, a mistaken pronunciation, perhaps) said 'We can contend with the evil that men do in the name of evil, but heaven protect us from what they do in the name of good.'

Richard Boone

#27. The truly free market is the worker's best friend.

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#28. Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously.

Yann Martel

#29. You should appreciate those things while you have them, but you never do. Not all the way. Too busy living. Now and again, you should try to stop to appreciate the little things. They'll build up if you do.

Nora Roberts

#30. Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.

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#31. Soccer forces life to move on. There's always a new match. A new season. There's always a dream that everything can get better. It's a game of wonders.

Fredrik Backman