“Markets help people pursue their happiness more efficiently and effectively. Because they are so effective, markets provide benefits right here and right now, even while government is busy batching the protection of happiness.”
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“What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.”
“To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.”
“Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.”
“There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.”
“People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.”
“The people rate strength before everything.”
“We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.”
“A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time”
“Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.”
“If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.”
“In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.”
“If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.”
“As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.”
“For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.”
“One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.”
“One spares old people just as one spares children.”
“The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.”
“If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.”
“Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.”