Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
Homer Simpson
That such an administration could be elected in the first place, headed by a man whose only qualifications to be president of the United States at a dangerous time in the history of the world were rhetoric, style and symbolism — and whose animus against the values and institutions of America had been demonstrated repeatedly over a period of decades beforehand — speaks volumes about the inadequacies of our educational system and the degeneration of our culture.
Thomas Sowell
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Ludwig von Mises
Indeed!!
I have been “studying” (if I may) the use and effects,
of using depleted uranium weaponry in the ME. USA
attacked and destroyed Iraq for harboring WMD while/then
using WMD against them. War crime squared.
Nobel prize for peace?
I like Mises, and I have read Human Action and The Theory of Money and Credit. Sometimes his translations can be, for lack of a better word, cumbersome. When I consider his quote above I think of Stalin’s Great Purge or Mao’s Great Leap Forward as examples of bad governments. While disastrous indeed, somehow the word mischief fails to capture the depths of their evil deeds, and the evil deeds of most bad governments.
In addition to Stalin’s “Great Purge” and Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” you can add Obama’s “Great Insurance Deal” as the greatest destructive things ever unleashed upon citizens of any country.
Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that.
Homer Simpson