George Leef famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality. Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.
-- George Leef

#Hurt #Cancer #Government
People who don't have the interest or aptitude for serious college studies at age 18 may find that later in life they do, but those who enroll just because they think that the mere possession of a college degree is the passport to success will just dig themselves a financial hole.
-- George Leef

#College #Thinking #People
Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their parents and of the taxpayers). If students happen to learn anything useful while enrolled, that's good, but if not, as long as they've paid their bills, that's not the university's problem.
-- George Leef

#College #Long #Parent
Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.
-- George Leef

#Book #College #Students
The free market is constantly under attack from those who believe that they know how to make the world a better place with properly administered doses of state coercion.
-- George Leef

#Believe #World #Coercion

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.
I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts
I get to keep you,â€ he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. â€œKeep me?â€ I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. â€œNot here. I canâ€™t take much more, Pagan. Iâ€™m only so strong,â€ he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. â€œYouâ€™re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.â€ I heard a touch of humor in his voice. â€œItâ€™s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.
I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.
I've never needed government to hold my hand.
You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11.
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

George Leef famous quotes

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