This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

You could pay down the national deficit with the cost of tickets.

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or...

No complaint … is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

I’ve got to make the best of what I’ve got. I think we will be a stellar team. We’ve got a lot of young talent, but once they get the butterflies out, they will be...

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.

No complaint… is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

We are not ruling out that if a program is performing poorly, it doesn’t get funding.

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public … The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order...

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature

We want the public to be more engaged.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from...

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

We want to improve coordination and deliver services as efficiently as possible.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those...

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement…. The whole industry of human life is employed not in...

Iraq looks messier and messier. Gasoline prices have soared. The president’s controversial plans for overhauling Social Security give Democrats a big cudgel to hammer Republicans among seniors.

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very...

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by...

I need more fights like that.

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that...

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is … that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

We don’t have permission to do that. We’re a finding tool, like a digital card catalog.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

The contentious matter of whether or not to begin drilling in Alaska has no place in a bill that funds the Department of Defense. The needs of our troops serving in combat should never be...

As a man of civil profession seems awkward in a camp or a garrison, and is even in danger of being despised there, so does an idle man among men of business,

Defense is superior to opulence.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

We know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views, too.

The prudent man is always sincere, and feels horror at the very thought of exposing himself to the disgrace which attends upon the detection of falsehood. But though always sincere, he is not always frank...

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable

What we’re doing here is completely in line with the principles of fair use. We think this will help more users discover their books, and buy their books.

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

I love the way it works now because it wins (games). We each bring a different aspect to the game and it’s hard to stop us.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

When EAA began the ‘Timeless Voices’ project in 2002, we sought to record the personal histories of a remarkable aviation generation that was passing from our midst. We have saved many stories from people who...

I just saw people coming and going, and I asked if I could help.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.