James Cook Quotes

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.

No resource will flourish if managed by government.

Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.

Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal.

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

Inequality promotes progress.

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

Money could never have originated as paper.

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

Taxes are a penalty on progress.

God has the experience that comes from billions of years.

It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith.

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

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.

We can never right the wrongs of the past.

Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.

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

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

Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

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

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.

Without memory there are no worries.

When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.

Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.

At times life becomes too busy for religious thoughts.

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

There are only two questions about government. How much do you want? How much can you stand?

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

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

We evolved without social welfare and we are equipped to solve our problems without it.

Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.

Struggle is the architect of the soul.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

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.