Hammocks 2 Catapults

“Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve… But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn’t belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish that law without delay… No legal plunder; this is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic.” — Frédéric Bastiat

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

“If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievment is entitlement. So now you think you are owed something, and you don’t have to work for it, and now you’re on a really bad road to nowhere, because there are people who will play to that sense of victimhood, aggreivement and entitlement, and you still won’t have a job.” – Condaleeza Rice

“You cannot reason a man out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.” — Benjamin Franklin