"It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?"

-- Robert Higgs

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“Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.”
“People are bloody ignorant apes.”
“It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.”
“The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely â€” which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.”

Source : Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”
“Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.”

Source : Interview with Divina Infusino, American Way Magazine, June 15, 1995.
“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.”
“I enjoy money. You got to know how to enjoy it, though. A lot of people enjoy it the wrong way: They spend it all.”

Source : Source: business.highbeam.com
“I have discipline; I look after my voice.”

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