The world inclines to Socialism because the great majority of people want it. They want it because they believe that Socialism will guarantee a higher standard of living. The loss of this conviction would signify the end of Socialism. –Mises, Socialism Added to my favorite quotes… (h/t Bryan Caplan)
Some spam I received a while back had this quote in it: “Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?” –George Wallace
What we need is an amendment forbidding the circumvention of the Constitution. It could read: “The Constitution shall not be circumvented.” I just got a big laugh from any lawyers who may be reading this. –Joe Sobran, “Constitutional Legerdemain,” syndicated column of April 11, 1996 (reprinted in Sobran’s, May 1996, Vol. 3, no. 5, page 12) (quoted […]
