James Cook Quotes

You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.

in which great difficulties are found to the present day by Englishmen, whose language presents no certain laws for rendering any given sound into a fixed combination of letters.

Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Investors believe in the best possible outcome.

Better to have something to say than to have to say something.

Suffering perfects the soul.

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.

Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves.

Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

Everybody lives an epic.

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

To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith.

Easier will always win out over harder.

Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.

We should worry about our own souls first and trust in God's plan for others.

You can't think in sound bytes.

No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

When you are aggrieved you learn.

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

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.

Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

The government is worst which governs most.

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

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

To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

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

We can never right the wrongs of the past.

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

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

A business owner who is liberal probably inherited the business.

Knaves will come and knaves will go.

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

No resource will flourish if managed by government.

Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.

Management is simple, innovation is hard.

Time flies when you're running out of money.

Good times weaken belief.

Doubt makes us reaffirm what we believe.

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

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.

Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

The thing that distinguishes permanent poverty is bad character.

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

People rarely use advice.

The Hollywood left insists on painting business persons as arch criminals, even though it's ridiculous. They like to depict free enterprise, capitalism and business leaders as a source of evil and criminality. Somehow they think that will influence enough people to further their left-wing agenda.

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.

Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.

People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.

What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.

Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

Advice from others is always filtered through self interest.

The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

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

We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

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

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

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

Beware the person who is on a hot streak.

There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with.

It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.

Government regulators are another name for police.

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

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.'

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

Once trapped in the belief that you are a victim, you surrender your birthright to compete for the prizes of life.

The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

You can't suffer over two things at once.

To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

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

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

Struggle is the architect of the soul.

There are alternate explanations for everything.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

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

Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.

Nobody heeds danger when they're making money.

Other than sex, two things bring people together; economic transactions and booze.

Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.

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

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