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| fac6bea | The widespread enthusiasm for reducing government taxes and other impositions is not matched by a comparable enthusiasm for eliminating government programs--except programs that benefit other people. The | Milton Friedman | ||
| acabef2 | On the contrary, the inflation itself is partly a response to the reaction. As it has become politically less attractive to vote higher taxes to pay for higher spending, legislators have resorted to financing spending through inflation, a hidden tax that can be imposed without having been voted, taxation without representation. That is no more popular in the twentieth century than it was in the eighteenth. | Milton Friedman | ||
| b793adb | Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.' --MILTON FRIEDMAN | Satish Y. Deodhar | ||
| a94f93b | As these remarks indicate, the Social Security program involves a transfer from the young to the old. To some extent such a transfer has occurred throughout history--the young supporting their parents, or other relatives, in old age. Indeed, in many poor countries with high infant death rates, like India, the desire to assure oneself of progeny who can provide support in old age is a major reason for high birth rates and large families. The.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 6833c8d | The question that has perhaps divided students of vouchers more than any other is their likely effect on the social and economic class structure. Some have argued that the great value of the public school has been as a melting pot, in which rich and poor, native- and foreign-born, black and white have learned to live together. That image was and is largely true for small communities, but almost entirely false for large cities. There, the pu.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| dd87f73 | One feature of the voucher plan that has aroused particular concern is the possibility that parents could and would "add on" to the vouchers. If the voucher were for, say, $1,500, a parent could add another $500 to it and send his child to a school charging $2,000 tuition. Some fear that the result might be even wider differences in educational opportunities than now exist because low-income parents would not add to the amount of the vouche.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| abe8824 | Alas, I soon grew disillusioned, concluding that economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear. Whatever a politician wanted to do, he or she could find an economist as advisor who had argued for doing precisely that. Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to increase government spending, so he listened to John Maynard Keynes, whereas Ronald Reagan wanted to decrease.. | Max Tegmark | ||
| 1489e14 | This view seems to us an example of the kind of egalitarianism discussed in the preceding chapter: letting parents spend money on riotous living but trying to prevent them from spending money on improving the schooling of their children. It is particularly remarkable coming from Coons and Sugarman, who elsewhere say, "A commitment to equality at the deliberate expense of the development of individual children seems to us the final corruptio.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| de68bdc | 7) The impact on public schools. It is essential to separate the rhetoric of the school bureaucracy from the real problems that would be raised. The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers claim that vouchers would destroy the public school system, which, according to them, has been the foundation and cornerstone of our democracy. Their claims are never accompanied by any evidence that the public school system.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| a3c6e3d | It is often maintained that while a let-alone, limited government policy was feasible in sparsely settled nineteenth-century America, government must play a far larger, indeed dominant, role in a modern urbanized and industrial society. One hour in Hong Kong will dispose of that view. Our society is what we make it. We can shape our institutions. Physical and human characteristics limit the alternatives available to us. But none prevents us.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 0e863da | i) Social benefits. When we first started writing about higher education, we had a good deal of sympathy for the first justification. We no longer do. In the interim we have tried to induce the people who make this argument to be specific about the alleged social benefits. The answer is almost always simply bad economics. We are told that the nation benefits by having more highly skilled and trained people, that investment in providing such.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 7a8d3ea | Exchange is truly voluntary only when nearly equivalent alternatives exist. Monopoly implies the absence of alternatives and thereby inhibits effective freedom of exchange. | Milton Friedman | ||
| cb6c41d | In the modern world, tariffs and similar restrictions on trade have been one source of friction among nations. But a far more troublesome source has been the far-reaching intervention of the state into the economy in such collectivist states as Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, and Franco's Spain, and especially the communist countries, from Russia and its satellites to China. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 1df49d2 | Higher government spending will not lead to more rapid monetary growth and inflation if additional spending is financed either by taxes or by borrowing from the public. In that case, government has more to spend, the public has less. Higher government spending is matched by lower private spending for consumption and investment. However, | Milton Friedman | ||
| 10af477 | As Dr. Gunnar Biorck, an eminent Swedish professor of medicine and head of the department Of medicine at a major Swedish hospital, has written: The setting in which medicine has been practiced during thousands of years has been one in which the patient has been the client and employer of the physician. Today the State, in one manifestation or the other, claims to be the employer and, thus, the one to prescribe the conditions under which t.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 9c9d9bd | Thomas Aquinas was asked, "What must I do to be a saint?" and he said, "Will it." Be a saint, and you'll unleash the power of grace and holiness." | Robert E. Barron | ||
| a89cf21 | Human nature inclines us to have recourse to petition for the purpose of obtaining from another, especially from a person of higher rank, what we hope to receive from him. So prayer is recommended to men, that by it they may obtain from God what they hope to secure from Him. But the reason why prayer is necessary for obtaining something from a man is not the same as the reason for its necessity when there is question of obtaining a favor fr.. | god metaphysics philosophy prayer religion superstition | Thomas Aquinas | |
| a98b201 | Nothing created has ever been able to fill the heart of man. God alone can fill it infinitely.--ST. THOMAS AQUINAS. | Various | ||
| 0f99c0b | As Saint Thomas Aquinas said, one should not try to defend the Christian faith with arguments that are so patently opposed to reason that the faith is made to look ridiculous and deserving of scorn. | Derya Little | ||
| 66f0b88 | If [things] seem to have a relative unreality ... it is because they are potential and not actual; they are unfulfilled ... They have it in them to be more real than they are. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 8482620 | The very identity of racist Southerners depends upon contrasting themselves with those dirty black "nigras." But, conversely, the out-groups feel that they are really and truly "in," and nourish their collective ego with relishingly indignant conversation about squares, Ofays, Wasps, Philistines, and the blasted bourgeoisie. Even Saint Thomas Aquinas let it out that part of the blessedness of the saints in Heaven was that they could look ov.. | Alan W. Watts | ||
| 630db4c | Far be it from a poor friar to deny that you have these dazzling diamonds in your head, all designed in the most perfect mathematical shapes and shining with a purely celestial light; all there, almost before you begin to think, let alone to see or hear or feel. But I am not ashamed to say that I find my reason fed by my senses; that I owe a great deal of what I think to what I see and smell and taste and handle; and that so far as my reaso.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 899daa6 | But in this life on earth we have not only the fear but the certainty that we shall lose it. For one day we must die. Therefore true happiness... lasting, everlasting happiness cannot be our lot on earth. Nor could it be otherwise. For everlasting happiness is only another name for God. | saint-anything st-thomas-aquinas | Louis de Wohl | |
| b8f907e | Locus ab auctoritate est infirmissimus. [The argument from authority is the weakest.] | Saint Thomas Aquinas | ||
| 56127be | The Fear of the Lord, that is the beginning of wisdom, and therefore belongs to the beginnings, and is felt in the first cold hours before the dawn of civilisation; the power that comes out of the wilderness and rides on the whirlwind and breaks the gods of stone; the power before which the eastern nations are prostrate like a pavement; the power before which the primitive prophets run naked and shouting, at once proclaiming and escaping fr.. | fear-of-the-lord | G.K. Chesterton | |
| acda226 | the most expensive champagne in the world is cheap when compared with inkjet ink, which costs all of a penny a gallon to make wholesale. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 366b4d3 | Our marriages were meant to be alive, not dead. Is your marriage more like romance or roadkill? | Beth Moore | ||
| 29ddde4 | Persons of strong character are usually the happiest. They do not blame others for troubles that can be traced to their own actions and lack of understanding. They know that no one has the power to add to their happiness or detract from it, unless they themselves allow the adverse thoughts or wicked actions of others to affect them. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| be615be | When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about? | John C. Maxwell | ||
| cd357ad | Your attitude colors every aspect of your life. It is like the mind's paintbrush. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 12cb5dc | Don't let your mandate come from the grumbling of the crowd. Get your cues from God and the mission He has given you. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| f661355 | While the Bible was the definitive reference point for settling questions of doctrine and practice, questions not clearly settled by Scripture that were of theological importance were numerous (and difficult), and churches could not always look to precedents in church history as a guide. The difficulty of resolving disputes is evident in an even more serious controversy from the late second century. | William J. Bennett | ||
| e0c2de5 | One good way to understand what conservatism is really about is to use the acronym FLINT to remember five core concepts: Free enterprise, Limited government, Individual liberty, National defense, and Traditional values. These five principles are a good summary of conservative thought in America today. | William J. Bennett | ||
| 14cb504 | I forget if it was the Mathematician of Alexandria who said that geometry is beauty laid bare or the Father of Relativity who made the claim for physics," Darger said. "She is, in either case, ravishing." | physics ravishing | Michael Swanwick | |
| 13d9336 | Relationships between things shift and change constantly; there is not such thing as objective truth. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| f3be024 | Their business here was over then, and they all knew it; the magic moment had arrived when it was understood that nothing more would be established, discovered, or decided today. But the meeting, having once begun, must drag on for several long more hours before it could be ended. The engines of protocol had enormous inertial mass; once set in motion they took forever to grind to a stop. | witty | Michael Swanwick | |
| 1470bb0 | Everybody needs a servant, excellent sir, whether they know it or not. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| 06707be | A few words before we attack," Surplus said. "I know that I can trust you all to be terrifying..." "Yasss!" his mountain horse said. "Be quiet, Buttercup. However, please remember to only knock down things that are not difficult to repair - porches are fine; pottery is not." | Michael Swanwick | ||
| 79b2c17 | The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| 98da895 | The Spider Hero lived his life by this maxim: He who possesses great power is burdened also with great responsibility. -- | Michael Swanwick | ||
| a0e6c79 | Lucky for you, you don't need to worry about love at all. Because you have a wife. | Michael Swanwick | ||
| 9142c49 | It almost sounds sensible when you say it," Prince First-Born Splendor said. "Even though I know better." -- | Michael Swanwick | ||
| a2976da | Sometimes Richard had the sinking suspicion that he had a far better chance of preventing Bonaparte from conquering Europe than he had of thwarting his mother's plans to see him married off within the next Season. | Lauren Willig | ||
| ea3372c | When Richard created the Purple Gentian, the talent for ancient languages that had stunned his schoolmasters at Eton had come to his aid once again. While Sir Percy had pretended to be a fop, Richard bored the French into complacency with long lectures about antiquity. When Frenchmen demanded to know what he was doing in France, and Englishmen reproached him for fraternising with the enemy, Richard opened his eyes wide and proclaimed, 'But .. | languages scholar | Lauren Willig |