“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain
“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
― Mark Twain
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
― Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”
― Mark Twain
“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
― Mark Twain
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
― Mark Twain
“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
― Mark Twain
“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain
“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
― Mark Twain
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
― Mark Twain
“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
― Mark Twain
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain
“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”
― Mark Twain
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
― Mark Twain
“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
― Mark Twain
“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”
― Mark Twain
“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
― Mark Twain
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
― Mark Twain
“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
― Mark Twain
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
― Mark Twain
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”
― Mark Twain
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
― Mark Twain
“There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
― Mark Twain
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
― Mark Twain
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.”
― Mark Twain
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
― Mark Twain
“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
― Mark Twain
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
― Mark Twain
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
― Mark Twain
“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”
― Mark Twain
“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.”
― Mark Twain
“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
― Mark Twain
“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”
― Mark Twain
“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.”
― Mark Twain
“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.”
― Mark Twain
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
― Mark Twain
“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.”
― Mark Twain
“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”
― Mark Twain
“It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”
― Mark Twain
“In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”
― Mark Twain
“Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.”
― Mark Twain
“for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”
― Mark Twain
“To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.”
― Mark Twain
“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”
― Mark Twain
“They did not know it was impossible so they did it”
― Mark Twain
“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”
― Mark Twain
“Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.”
― Mark Twain
“Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
― Mark Twain
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis
“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis
“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis
“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis
“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”
― C.S. Lewis
“The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. ”
― C.S. Lewis
“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C. S. Lewis
“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
“She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.”
― C.S. Lewis
“In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
― C.S. Lewis
“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis
“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.”
― C.S. Lewis
“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love as distinct from "being in love" — is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriage) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God... "Being in love" first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Nothing is yet in its true form.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”
― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
“Suspicion often creates what it suspects.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."
[From the Preface]”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“Always winter but never Christmas.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
“My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.”
― C.S. Lewis
“When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
“If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
“My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.”
― C.S. Lewis
“He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Collected Works of C.S. Lewis
“There have been men before … who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself… as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
“This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there’s a rumor going around the shop that some of us are someday going to come to life.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
― C. S. Lewis
“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”
― C.S. Lewis
“The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”
― C.S. Lewis
“When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
― CS Lewis
"Christianity has not, and does not profess to have, a detailed political program for applying ‘Do as you would be done by’ to a particular society at a particular moment. It could not have. It is meant for all men at all times and the particular program which suited one place or time would not suit another. And, anyhow, that is not how Christianity works. When it tells you to feed the hungry it does not give you lessons in cookery. When it tells you to read the Scriptures it does not give you lessons in Hebrew and Greek, or even in English grammar. It was never intended to replace or supersede the ordinary human arts and sciences: it is rather a director which will set them all to the right jobs, and a source of energy which will give them all new life, if only they will put themselves at its disposal.
People say, ‘The Church ought to give us a lead.’ That is true if they mean it in the right way, but false if they mean it in the wrong way. By the Church they ought to mean the whole body of practicing Christians. And when they say that the Church should give us a lead, they ought to mean that some Christians–those who happen to have the right talents–should be economists and statesmen, and that all economists and statesmen should be Christians and that their whole efforts in politics and economics should be directed to putting ‘Do as you would be done by’ into action. If that happened, and if we others were really ready to take it, then we should find the Christian solution for our own social problems pretty quickly. But, of course, when they ask for a lead from the Church most people mean they want the clergy to put out a political program. That is silly. The clergy are those particular people within the whole Church who have been specially trained and set aside to look after what concerns us as creatures who are going to live forever: and we are asking them to do a quite different job for which they have not been trained. The job is really on us, on the laymen. The application of Christian principles, say, to trade unionism or education, must come from Christian trade unionists and Christian schoolmasters: just as Christian literature comes from Christian novelists and dramatists -not from the bench of bishops getting together and trying to write plays and novels in their spare time."
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Love actually is a great act of the will. It's when I say, "I desire your good, not for my sake but for yours". To love is to break out of the black hole of the ego and say, "My life is about you".”
― Bishop Robert Barron
“One of the most fundamental problems in the spiritual order is that we sense within ourselves the hunger for God, but we attempt to satisfy it with some created good that is less than God. Thomas Aquinas said that the four typical substitutes for God are wealth, pleasure, power, and honor. Sensing the void within, we attempt to fill it up with some combination of these four things, but only by emptying out the self in love can we make the space for God to fill us. The classical tradition referred to this errant desire as "concupiscence," but I believe that we could neatly express the same idea with the more contemporary term "addiction." When we try to satisfy the hunger for God with something less than God, we will naturally be frustrated, and then in our frustration, we will convince ourselves that we need more of that finite good, so we will struggle to achieve it, only to find ourselves again, necessarily, dissatisfied. At this point, a sort of spiritual panic sets in, and we can find ourselves turning obsessively around this creaturely good that can never in principle make us happy.”
― Bishop Robert Barron
“Chesterton's fence is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood. The quotation is from Chesterton’s 1929 book The Thing, in the chapter entitled "The Drift from Domesticity":
In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”― G. K. Chesterton
“Is it fair for those of us who live comfortably to impose our prefernces on individuals in the developing world? Economist argue that it is not, though we do it all the time. ... It is simply bad economics to impose our prefernces on individuals whose lives are much, much different”
― Charles Wheelan
“Maximising uility is not synonymous with acting selfishly.”
"Why did the entreprenuer cross the road? Becausehe could make more money on the other side."
― Charles Wheelan
“...firms try to make as much money as possible..”
"Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it maximised his utility."
― Charles Wheelan
“Time is our most scarce resource."
― Charles Wheelan
“The real cost of something is hat you must give up in order to get it ..."
― Charles Wheelan
“One powerful feature of a market economy is that it directs resources to their most productive use."
― Charles Wheelan
“Price Descrimination: People will pay more for their own medicine than they will for their pet's."
― Charles Wheelan
“... the black rhino is worth far more dead than alive to the people of impoverished southern Africa."
"Communial resources ... present some unique problems."
― Charles Wheelan
“The pay of American teachers is not linked in any way to performance;Teachers' unions have consistantly opposed any kind of merit pay. Instead, salaries in nearly every public school district in the country are determined by a rigid formula based on experience and years of schooling, factors that researchers have found to be generally unrelated to performance in the classroom."
"Adverse Selection: Any system that pays all teachers the same provides a strong incentive for the most talented among them to look for work elsewhere."
― Charles Wheelan
“...Competition means losers, which goeas a long way to explain why we embrace it heartily in theory and then often fight it bitterly in practice."
― Charles Wheelan
“We know that people seek to make themselves better off, however they may define that."
― Charles Wheelan
“One crucial role for government in a market economy is dealing with externalities - those cases in which individuals or firms engage in private behavior that has broader social consequences."
― Charles Wheelan
“Good government makes a market economy possible. Period."
― Charles Wheelan
“It is difficult, if not impssible, to get a conventional home mortgage on an Indian reservation because the land is owned communally ... What that means to a commercial bank is that a mortgage that has fallen delinquent cannot be foreclosed."
― Charles Wheelan
“We measure our well-being in terms of utility, which is a theoretical concept, not a measurement tool that can be quantified, compared among individuals, or aggregated for the nation."
― Charles Wheelan
“The private sector allocates resources where they will earn the highest return.
Markets work because resources flow to where they are valued most. Government regulation inherently interfers with that process."
― Charles Wheelan
“... we ought to reject the grossly oversimplified argument that any chemical that harms the environment should be banned."
― Charles Wheelan
“Taxation discourages both work and investment."
― Charles Wheelan
“Every McDonald's hamburger tastes the same, whether it is sold in Moscow, Mexico City, or Cincinnati."
"McDonald's sells hamburgers, fries, and, most importantly, predictability."
― Charles Wheelan
“We are taught from a young age that one should never judge a book by its cover. But we must; it is often all we get to see."
― Charles Wheelan