James Cook Quotes

We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

Employers know the nature of people best.

The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

Government regulators are another name for police.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

Investors believe in the best possible outcome.

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.

The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

The government endangers us with our own money.

When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.

The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.

The more welfare, the more crime.

The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.

The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with.

The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.