Date of birth: 1930-07-30
Quotes number: 52
Nationality: American
Profession: Economist
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
