Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Quotes To Ponder

Just read and think about how these apply to what we're living right now:

"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."
-- Thomas Jefferson --

"Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them."
-- Thomas Jefferson --

"[P]eople do not ask for socialism because they know that socialism will improve their conditions, and they do not reject capitalism because they know that it is a system prejudicial to their interests. They are socialists because they believe that socialism will improve their conditions, and they hate capitalism because they believe that it harms them. They are socialists because they are blinded by envy and ignorance."
-- economist Ludwig von Mises --

Wise words.  We would do well to keep them in mind as the economic future of this great nation hangs in the balance.

There's my two cents.

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