"Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ... every time the government uses its money or its power to favor this group or that ... the net result is such a web of supports, subsidies, interventions and controls that it is almost impossible for a nation to find its way back into a dynamic system of really free enterprise."

-- Lawrence Fertig

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Support Quotes

“Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.”
“People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain.”
“When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.”
“Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt.”
“It is now becoming clear that everything can - and probably did - come from nothing.”
“The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists.”
“Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.”
“The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.”

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.23

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