Month: October 2022

* August 12, 1986 From President Ronald Reagan “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”

* July 7th, 2009 Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister of The United Kingdom said “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”.

* Friedrich A. Hayek, Co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics said “If socialists understood economics they wouldn’t be socialists.”

Friedrich A. Hayek is one of the most influential members of the Austrian School of economics, and in 1974 shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics with Gunnar Myrdal “for their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena.” He also received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991 from President George H. W. Bush.

* House of Commons, November 11, 1947 Winston Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom said “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.”

*   December 12th, 1987 President Ronald Reagan popularized the statement ” Trust but verify”. He used this Russian phrase frequently.

* “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

* “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

* “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

* “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

* “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― Jose Marti

* “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

* “As government expands, liberty contracts.”
― Ronald Reagan