14 ordspråk av William E. Simon
William E. Simon
 Achievers must not be penalized or parasites rewarded if we aspire to a healthy, productive, and ethical society. |
| Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. |
| Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. |
| Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. |
| Bureaucracies themselves should be assumed to be noxious, authoritarian parasites on society, with a tendency to augment their own size and power and to cultivate a parasitical clientele in all classes of society. |
| Explaining something sensible to Lord Killanin is akin to explaining something to a cauliflower. The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it. |
| Explaining something sensible to Lord Killanin is akin to explaining something to a cauliflower. The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it. |
| Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.", "...freedom is difficult to understand because it isn't a '(ital) presence' but an '(ital) absence'�an absence of governmental constraint. People who are unfamiliar with severe political constraints�severe enough to make them aware that they have lost their freedom�often don't know what freedom is and on what it depends. |
| I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it. |
| Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves -- our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love. |
| Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth. |
| The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. |
| The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. |
| Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater. |
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