Occupation: Explorer Birth: November 7, 1728 Death: February 14, 1779
What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case..
Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do..
Better to build orphanages than prisons..
You slight yourself when you're easily slighted..
Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails..
Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal..
Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse..
It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies..
Money could never have originated as paper..
Never underestimate the incompetence of government..
Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence..
Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through..
Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually m….
A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his librari….
Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy..
Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it..
You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity..
It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism..
The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results..
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined..
The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them..