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

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

Without memory there are no worries.

What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but

The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.