Thomas Dilorenzo Quotes

#1. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Jesse Owens

#2. I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

Cate Blanchett

#3. After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

King George V

#4. Isn't the whole idea behind the massive regulation and regimentation of American industry and society the notion that individuals should be forced to behave in ways defined by a small governmental elite?

Thomas DiLorenzo

#5. I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can't be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.

Thomas DiLorenzo

#6. The biggest roadblock to middle-class economic advancement is that governments confiscate more than a third of all family income. Each year the average American taxpayer works 127 days - from January 1 until May 7 - just to pay taxes.

Thomas DiLorenzo

#7. It is no coincidence that some of America's most lethargic industries-steel, footwear, rubber, textiles-are also among the most heavily protected.

Thomas DiLorenzo

#8. Socialism is socialism. Government run enterprises are just as inept under democratic governments as they are under autocratic governments.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

#9. One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided.

Willy Russell

#10. Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to "fine-tune" the economy through monetary policy. In reality, however, a non-political governmental institution is as likely as a barking cat.

Thomas DiLorenzo

#11. The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.

Thomas DiLorenzo

#12. There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.

Elizabeth Hawes