“I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.” YearsSaidCountryRunningWantedFatherPoliticsCapacityYears AgoBreweries Author:Pete Coors
“A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.” YearsFunnyPoliticsYears AgoMereBeachFortyVolleyballBureaucratsVolleyBeach Volleyball Author:Newt Gingrich
“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.” WorldYearsFirstsTwoWarWisdomCertainPoliticsEasyEconomyAmountHundredYears AgoIncreaseWar Of The WorldsLiberalismWorld War IiAdamWorld War IBusinessmanEconomistRigidityEasy Days Author:John Chamberlain
“There's only one honest way to measure affluence; that's by comparing the capability of producing goods and services with the desire of people to enjoy them. It's a lousy, crooked trick to compare this society with China or some such place and then say we're affluent. It's a piece of intellectual crookery even to compare this economy with itself ten or twenty years ago. We should compare what we have with what we could have.” PeopleWayShouldYearsWisdomDesirePoliticsEnjoyEconomyPiecesHonestTenIntellectualYears AgoTwentiesChinaTricksCompareLiberalismGoodsCapabilityCrookedAffluenceThis SocietyAffluentGoods And Services Author:Louis O. Kelso
“Some years ago a top Ford official was showing the late Walter Reuther through the very automates plant in Cleveland, Ohio and he said to him jokingly, "Walter, you'll have a hard time collecting union dues from these machines." and Walter said, "you are going to have more trouble trying to sell automobiles to them." Both of them let it stop there. There was a logical answer to that ... the owners of the machines could buy automobiles and if you increase the number of owners you increase the number of consumers.” IfsTryingYearsSaidHardWisdomPoliticsAnswersNumbersEconomyTroubleLateYears AgoMachinesIncreaseSellsUnionsPlantDuesConsumersOfficialsHard TimesLiberalismOwnersLogicalCollectingAutomobileOhioClevelandCleveland Ohio Author:Ronald Reagan
“Over hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. There was wide distribution of land and they didn't confiscate anyone's privately owned land... We need an industrial Homestead Act.” NeedsYearsWisdomPoliticsEconomyLandHundredYears AgoWideLiberalismDistributionAbrahamHomestead Act Author:Ronald Reagan
“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” MenWorldYearsPoliticalPoliticsThis WorldYears AgoGentleGreek Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy
“While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.” YearsLittlesGovernmentPoliticalThreePoliticsLibertyFourSocietyThousandUnderstoodYears AgoThousand YearsStandstill Author:John Adams