A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. — David Brinkley

Stress is like spice. In the right proportion, it enhances the flavor of a dish. Too little produces a bland, dull meal. Too much may choke you. –Donald Tubesing, from “Kicking Your Stress Habits”

“Governmental economic planning is back seat driving by a man who doesn’t know how to drive and who … doesn’t know where he wants to go.” — economist and expert on the Great Depression, Benjamin Anderson

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. — … Continue reading →

“A morally legitimate government must be strong enough to protect an individual’s rights — but not strong enough to violate them. Its specific powers and spheres of activity must be rigorously defined by constitutional law, and, by the same authority, … Continue reading →

Social crusaders are not forced to confront the consequences of their choices, even in their own minds or consciences, much less pay a tangible price for the havoc they leave in their wake while feeling noble. — economist/historian Thomas Sowell

“What we are now asked to worship, what had once been dressed as God or king, is the naked, twisted, mindless figure of the human Incompetent….But we–we, who must atone for the guilt of ability–we will work to support him … Continue reading →

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out. — economist Ludwig von Mises

James Madison, author of the original American Constitution: “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents… If Congress … Continue reading →

Economist Ludwig von Mises, in an unpublished letter to Ayn Rand complimenting her on her classic novel “Atlas Shrugged:” “You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you [the masses] are inferior and all the … Continue reading →

‘Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.’ — Frederic Bastiat

“Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards … Continue reading →