Thursday, October 28, 2010

government fiction

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Frédéric Bastiat, Essays on Political Economy (1873)

Thursday, October 21, 2010

doubts are traitors

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."
-- William Shakespeare (Measure for Measure) c.1604