Born on June 30 — Quotes

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.

What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.

God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.

Our forefathers were backsliding for instance Simon Peter felt overburdened by Jesus issues and decided to go back and fish, such temptations still exist. There is danger in our African Church. Paul was teaching that what we are teaching cannot be seen but it has value. If we stop praising and reading the Bible to explain it, even if you give out posho and beans, it is not what God asked us to do.

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It’s like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can’t control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you.

Money only appears for the sake of facilitating the arrangements between the parties.

Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their agents form a part of the human race? Do they consider that they are composed of different materials from the rest of mankind? They say that society, when left to itself, rushes to inevitable destruction, because its instincts are perverse. They presume to stop it in its downward course, and to give it a better direction. They have, therefore, received from heaven, intelligence and virtues that place them beyond and above mankind: let them show their title to this superiority.

We are a poor people, much afflicted. We camped under various stars, Where you dip water with a cup from a muddy river And slice your bread with a pocketknife. This is a place accepted, not chosen.

That raven on yon left-hand oak
(Curse on his ill-betiding croak!)
Bodes me no good.

'Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined.

عيناها تسحب الأشياء بشَـرقة السرعة، مخلّفةً وراءها فراغ شكلٍ مثالي .

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

You can buy Loro Piana but not a sense of humor

monopoly, like every other system of injustice, carries in itself its own punishment.

My monograph on ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy|visible spectroscopy using molecular orbital notations eventually resulted into a book in 1960.