Quotes for All
So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben – or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer – to put his wealth where his words are. I’ll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods … Read more
For those who fancy that government’s projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy, entrusting government with power that we would never entrust to our neighbors or other private citizens might seem sensible. To me, it’s dangerous, unjustified, and unjustifiable. Donald J. Boudreaux
Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense. Donald J. Boudreaux
To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And envy is, and ought to remain, a deadly sin rather than be fashioned into a livewire for energizing public policy. Donald J. Boudreaux
When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement. Donald J. Boudreaux
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that … Read more
Let’s be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities – starvation, tyranny, and genocide – that are produced by statism vigorously pursued. Nothing remotely close. Donald J. Boudreaux
Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims. Donald J. Boudreaux