Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.
James CookAll the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
James CookThe idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
James CookWhat 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.
James Cook