Tag: P.J. O’Rourke

“The private sector of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the public sector is, in fact, the coercive sector.”

Henry Hazlitt

“Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.”

Herbert Spencer

“When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.”

P. J. O’Rourke

“America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.”

Henry Steele Commager

“War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.”

Thomas Paine

“The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.”

Jacob G. Hornberger

“The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.”

P. J. O’Rourke

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

Winston Churchill

“No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.”

Isabel Paterson

“War does not determine who is right–only who is left.”

Bertrand Russell

“The surest way to reveal one’s character is not through adversity but by giving them power.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.”

P. J. O’Rourke

“Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.”

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

“A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Benjamin Franklin

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”

Noam Chomsky

“There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself.”

P. J. O’Rourke

“One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.”

John Adams

“Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.”

Lew Rockwell

“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”

Charles de Gaulle

“You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.”

P. J. O’Rourke

“It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”

PJ O’Rourke

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You say we [reporters] are distracting from the business of government. Well, I hope so. Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

P. J. O’Rourke
No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.

P. J. O’Rourke
Giving government money and power is like giving car keys and whiskey to a teenage boy

P.J. O’Rourke
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.

P.J. O’Rourke
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.

P.J. O’Rourke
In comparative terms, there’s no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American could make more money than 93 percent of the other people on the planet and still be considered poor.

P.J. O’Rourke
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

P.J. O’Rourke
The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.

P.J. O’Rourke
Politics should be limited in scope to war, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.

P.J. O’Rourke
The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

P.J. O’Rourke