Freedom ultimately means the right of the other people to do things you don’t approve of.
I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take someone else's money.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Money grows on the tree of persistence.
I am more interested in the return of my money than I am with a return on my money.
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
