Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.
James CookThe purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.
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