Hugh’s Quote of the Day:
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than to consume wealth without producing it.” – George Bernard Shaw
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than to consume wealth without producing it.” – George Bernard Shaw
“The entire American standard of living is artificially high right now, resting on the ability of Americans to borrow money from foreigners.” – Peter Schiff
“If people needed helping, I should expend my energy to offer that help, rather than forcing others to provide it.” – Mary Ruwart
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:1-2 (KJV)
“So Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.” Leviticus 8:36 (KJV)
“Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.” – Bertrand Russell
“You don’t need a treaty to have free trade.” – Murray Rothbard
“It wasn’t communism that brought down the Soviet Union and it isn’t socialism that’s ravaging Venezuela. Not directly. It’s corruption. It will be corruption that takes us down too. Inflation, deflation, bubble implosions, fiat currencies and central—formerly: king’s—banks, they’re all visible pustules of the underlying malady. The world’s economies and governments have all but forfeited their legitimacy. They’re being outed for what they most nearly are: criminal enterprises with a dress code, looting their lands and, at the end, each other.” – ‘Ol Remus, Editor of the Yer’Ol Woodpile Report blog
“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as we do when the baby gets hold of a hammer.” – Will Rogers
“If the state loses its grip over your mind, it loses the key to its very survival.” – Lew Rockwell
“Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” Romans 8:12-13 (KJV)
“The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.” – Leviticus 6:13 (KJV)
“The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.” – Ann Rand
“At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.” – Virginia Postrel
“Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle – the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.” – Karl Popper