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Advice from others is always filtered through self interest.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.

A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.

At times life becomes too busy for religious thoughts.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

Beware the person who is on a hot streak.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

Easier will always win out over harder.

Employers know the nature of people best.

Good times weaken belief.

From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

Give persons who would cheat you every opportunity so you can soon be rid of them.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

Government regulators are another name for police.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.

I could not help concluding, that this man felt the most supreme pleasure, while he was driven on, so fast and so smoothly, by the sea.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'

If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit.

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

Inequality promotes progress.

Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

Investors believe in the best possible outcome.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they can from the government. Giveaway programs encourage every imaginable sort of cheating and dishonesty. Wheeling and dealing in food stamps is a way of life. Lying and fraud are commonplace. Whenever you're dependent on the money, the end justifies the means.

Liars seldom believe anyone else.