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There Are Alternate Explanations For Everything.

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Government Charity Gives The Most To Those Who Refuse To Help Themselves; Private Charity Gives Less.

That Which You Worry About Most In Life Is Seldom Bad, And That Likely Applies To Dying.

Government Is Full Of People Who Think They Know What's Best For Others And Can Rationalize Compelling Them To Accept It.

The Liberal Agenda Is The Blueprint For National Ruin.

Management Is Simple, Innovation Is Hard.

Once You're In Heaven It Makes No Difference When You Got There.

If Everyone Had To Start Up Their Own Business, Socialism Would Soon Die.

Remember, The Greater The Opportunity, The Fewer Are Those Who See It.

The One Thing That Flies In The Face Of All Human History And Experience, Is That The Government Can Do A Superior Job Than The Private Sector.

There Is No Help From Without, Only From Within.

Better To Build Orphanages Than Prisons.

Apparently There's Nothing More Dangerous Than A Religious Criminal.

Taking Money From Job Creating Entrepreneurs And Giving It To Ever-failing Government Programs Has To Be The Ultimate In Economic Illiteracy.

Never Underestimate The Incompetence Of Government.

Prayer Is Futility When Compared To Belief.

Faith Must Be Worked At.

What Is Still More To Our Shame As Civilized Christians, We Debauch Their Morals Already Too Prone To Vice, And We Introduce Among Them Wants And Perhaps Disease Which They Never Before Knew And Which Serve Only To Disturb That Happy Tranquility Which They And Their Forefathers Enjoyed. If Anyone Denies The Truth Of This Assertion, Let Him Tell Me What The Natives Of The Whole Extent Of America Have Gained By The Commerce They Have Had With Europeans.

The Economy That Leads The World Will Be The One With The Most Millionaires And Billionaires.

Nothing Is More Difficult Than To Make A Profit.

Advice From Others Is Always Filtered Through Self Interest.

Suffering Over Something Is Proof Positive Of Its Importance.

A Salesman Sees A Commission.

All Too Often Unemployment Is Used As An Excuse For Misbehaving When Jobs Are Available Within Walking Distance.

Nothing's Worse Than A Business Person Who Sells Out To The Left, If You're A Capitalist, Stand Up And Be Counted.

Business Person

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.

Doubt Makes Us Reaffirm What We Believe.

Struggle Is The Architect Of The Soul.

With Socialized Medicine, The Trick Is Not To Die While Waiting For Treatment.

The Longer People Receive Economic Assistance, The Worse Their Social Condition And Behavior.

Private Charity Discourages Poverty While Public Subsidies Encourage It.

The Fundamental Laws Of Human Nature Are Overlooked By Social Planners.

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.

The American People Have Come To Rely On The Government For Their Security. They Will Find Out How Incompetent The Government Is When They No Longer Have Security.

Government Regulators Are Another Name For Police.

What Is Written Is More Influential Than What Is Said.

It's A Vain Hope To Believe That People Will Voluntarily Turn Their Back On Government Subsidies.

It Is Said That Government Is A Necessary Evil, But It Is Far More Evil Than It Is Necessary.

Time Flies When You're Running Out Of Money.

Once A Person Comes To Rely On The Government For Support, That Person Becomes A Socialist Through And Through.

It's Nearly Impossible For A Criminal To Come From A Good Mother.

Knaves Will Come And Knaves Will Go.

Getting Is More Fun Than Having.

Self Interest Determines Loyalty Or Betrayal.

Incompetent Government Embraces Hiring Quotas, Thus Furthering Their Incompetence.

Those Who Think Profit Is A Dirty Word Should Try To Make One.

Never Underestimate The Totality Of Chaos And Betrayal That Comes Through Currency Debasement.

Do Just Once What Others Say You Can't Do, And You Will Never Pay Attention To Their Limitations Again.

In Any Given Age It Is Only A Few Extremists Who Are Right.

Easier Will Always Win Out Over Harder.

Throughout History Government Has Seldom Hesitated From Robbing Its Citizens In A Crisis.

No Matter How Great Your Wisdom, You Can Still Make A Fool Of Yourself.

The Only Time You Can Have Maximum Economic Progress Is When Social Programs Don't Exist.

Going Without A Thing Enhances The Desire To Get It.

We Are Far Too Critical Of The Fabulous System Of Plenty That Has Brought Us The Highest Living Standards On Earth. The Liberals Have Done A Good Job Of Undermining Faith In The Market System.

Money Without Wisdom Diminishes The Pleasure And Enjoyment Of Wealth.

A Free Ride Is Life's Most Difficult Journey.

Difficult Journeys

You Slight Yourself When You're Easily Slighted.

The Soul Is That Part Of You In Harmony With God.

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 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 Is No More Than Taxpayers Hiring The Most Inefficient Organization To Do The Job.

Those Who Help The Poor The Most Also Hurt Them The Most.

The Welfare System Is The Breeding Ground Of Crime, Addiction And Radical Politics.

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.

Money Could Never Have Originated As Paper.

When You Are Aggrieved You Learn.

To Write About Business One Should Be In Business, Just As In Writing About Tasmania One Should Visit Tasmania.

The Government Endangers Us With Our Own Money.

Give Persons Who Would Cheat You Every Opportunity So You Can Soon Be Rid Of Them.

Liars Seldom Believe Anyone Else.

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.

Our Religious Understanding And Beliefs Should Evolve Just Like Everything Else.

Gifted Women Musicians And Composers Rarely Received Their Due.

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.

Whenever You Have Something Nice Someone Will Try To Ruin It.

Other Than Sex, Two Things Bring People Together; Economic Transactions And Booze.

When Your Mind Tries To Verify A Preconceived Notion You Can Miss The Obvious.

We Are Destroying Capitalism To Pay For Socialism.

You Can't Suffer Over Two Things At Once.

Young Atheists Abound, But Old Atheists Are Rare.

Rich Grandparents Get More Attention Than Poor Grandparents.

Nothing In Life Is Guaranteed, Including Government Guarantees.

To Use Ones Religion As A Rationalization For Lack Of Financial Success Demeans That Faith.

Financial Success

Love Of Country Is Nowhere The Same As Love Of Government.

The Higher The Wages The Fewer The Jobs; The Lower The Wages The More The Jobs.

Seeds Sewn In Adversity Bear The Greatest Fruit.

Socialism Is The Triumph Of People's Prejudices Over Their Reason.

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.

Independent Thinkers Are Usually Geniuses Or Idiots And At Times It's Hard To Tell Which.

From An Economic Standpoint, Liberalism Is A Greater Threat To America Than Communism Ever Was.

Without Memory There Are No Worries.

Unions Are At A Disadvantage In A Company Vote Because The Employees Can See That The Greatest Advocates Of Unionization Are Often The Malcontents And Marginal Workers.

Why Is It So Hard To See That When America Had High Savings, Low Taxes And Minimal Government, The Economy Grew Like A Week, And Today When We Have Just The Opposite, The Economy Is Shrinking.?

People Rarely Use Advice.

To Enslave A People, Give Them Money They Didn't Earn.

You Cannot Rectify Grievances From The Past With Today's Charity.

Government Is Not Competent Enough To Regulate.

No Resource Will Flourish If Managed By Government.

God Has The Experience That Comes From Billions Of Years.

The More Money Spent By Government To Address Social Injustice The Greater The Cries Of Social Injustice.

Living Your Life Constructs Your Soul, Not A Few Seconds Of Daily Prayer.

Taxes Cause The Most Bad Business Decisions.

A Business Owner Who Is Liberal Probably Inherited The Business.

Business Owners

Inequality Promotes Progress.

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.

Faith Puts The Power Of The Universe At Your Disposal.

When Politics Is Elevated Over Business, Economic Disaster Follows.

The More Successful An Organization Becomes, The More Difficult It Is To Deal With.

When People Criticize The Free Market, They Are Usually Complaining About What Happens When You Intervene In The Free Market.

Better To Have Something To Say Than To Have To Say Something.

To Be A Good Manager Of People Requires Both Fairness And Bluntness.

There Are Alternate Explanations For Everything.

Hiring Quotas Reduce Efficiency.

If You Want The Best Results In An Organization, You Must Rely Solely On Merit.

There Are Only Two Questions About Government. How Much Do You Want? How Much Can You Stand?

The Purer The Application Of Socialism, The Worse The Results, The Purer The Application Of Capitalism, The Better The Results.

The Eyes Of The Owner Can See What No One Else Can See.

We Can Never Right The Wrongs Of The Past.

The Decline And Fall Of A Civilization Is Barely Noticed By Most Of Its Citizens.

The Reason Our Economic Crisis Has Been Forestalled Is The Reason There Will Be An Economic Crisis.

Everybody Lives An Epic.

No Role In Life Is More Important Than To Be A Good Mother.

The Left Controls The Media, The Institutions Of Higher Learning And The Government. They Preach Against Business, Disparate Merit, Decry Free Enterprise And Slander Capitalism.

The Thing That Distinguishes Permanent Poverty Is Bad Character.

People Who Never Seen To Learn Claim The Government Can Be Made More Efficient.

There Is A Reason And Not A Reason For Everything.

Reason For Everything

Beware The Person Who Is On A Hot Streak.

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.'

People Want Government To Solve Problems, But Government Is Often The Cause Of The Problem.

Inflation Makes The Wealthiest People Richer And The Masses Poorer.

The More Welfare, The More Crime.

Whatever You Subsidize You Get More Of.

Once Trapped In The Belief That You Are A Victim, You Surrender Your Birthright To Compete For The Prizes Of Life.

Memory Doesn't Erase. The Recall Ability Fails.

Winning A Lottery May Prove To Be Bad Luck.

Socialism Was Made To Order For Tyrants.

Virtually Anything Is More Stimulating Than Conversations With Strangers At Social Gatherings.

Private Charity Can Apply 'tough Love' But Government Charity Can't.

We Evolved Without Social Welfare And We Are Equipped To Solve Our Problems Without It.

There Is Nothing Very Religious About Feeling Superior To Those Who Don't Share Your Views.

Worry Not So Much About Other Peoples Morals But More About Your Own.

It's Not Up To God For Us To Use The Gift Of Faith.

A Thinker Reverses Roles And Sees The Perspectives Of Others.

The Universality Of Tattooing Is A Curious Subject For Speculation.

To Succeed In Business, Put The Interest Of The Customer Ahead Of Your Own.

Whatever You Do Without Confidence Will Be Done Badly.

We Should Worry About Our Own Souls First And Trust In God's Plan For Others.

Let One State In The U.s. Be Free Of Government And Overnight You Would Have An Economic Powerhouse.

Governments Institutionalize Something For Nothing.

When Wildlife Damages Agriculture We Eliminate The Wildlife. Rather We Should Eliminate Agriculture When It Damages Wildlife.

The Most Practical Information About Life Is Sneered At By Social Planners.

All The Warnings The Founding Fathers Gave Us About Government Proved To Be True. We Should Have Listened.

Self Interest Feeds More People Than Self Sacrifice.

Most Everything Government Does Is Worse Than Useless.

Employers Know The Nature Of People Best.

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.

Suffering Perfects The Soul.

At Times Life Becomes Too Busy For Religious Thoughts.

It's Easier To Have Faith In Yourself If You Have Faith In God.

Capitalists Have Done More Good For Society Through Their Charitable Giving, Philanthropy And Generosity Than All Their Critics Combined.

Any Nation That Allows The Government To Dominate Its Monetary And Economic Policies Will Ultimately Suffer Grave Consequences.

We Are Coerced Into Faith By Our Suffering.

Subsidies Have Changed The Way The Nation Behaves.

Government Does The Least Good And The Most Harm Through Subsidies.

If The Definition Of Insanity Is Doing The Same Thing Over And Over Again Expecting Different Results, Then Liberalism Is A Form Of Insanity.

Those Who Live Off Of The Donations Of Capitalism Are Often Its Greatest Critics.

Good Times Weaken Belief.

Governments Without Separation Of Powers Commit The Worst Crimes.

Hardly Anything Works Out As Well As We Hope.

Things Work Out

It's Not Capitalism That's Failing The U.s. But Socialism.

Taxes Are A Penalty On Progress.

Nobody Heeds Danger When They're Making Money.

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

The More Noteworthy A Person's Achievements, The More Government Agents Are Attracted To Investigating That Person.

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