Famous Quotes & Sayings

With the world divided, the United Nations divided, our country divided and our party divided, it would be inexplicable if we did not have a debate on this crucially important issue.

Ruth Reichl

World War II really fascinated me because it's the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty.

Words are not enough. It is time for rich-country governments to stump up or shut up.

We're still leading the way but the margins are narrowing and rival countries have learnt from us. I'm in it to win it and we're here to win and the gloves are off.

We're still going with the official count from last night, 40 in Biloxi. But that's going to be very low.

We're looking for input from the public on our thoroughfare plan. We're consolidating each city's plan with ours and then using data and information from the Texas Department of Transportation to create traffic models for county roads.

We're not happy playing the No. 1 team in the country close. You lose a game, you lose a game.

We've got members in over 85 countries around the world, this is not just about people who are going week-in, week-out,

We've got guys we can always count on. We had three guys step up and hit 3-pointers that really contributed.

John Neal

We've got guys playing from all over the country playing here, East Coast, West Coast; plus you are on national television. It's a way to show the world you can play.

John Schneider

We've got county people that have worked for the county for 15 years, and this was the first time we were all together as a group. Every department was involved.

We've got a national academy, we've got county academies, we've got is a natural development of our top coaches,

Bill Murray

Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It's so challenging to live, and the people are so close among their own tribes, their own groups, that you can't rule them all, you can't get an accord from all of them.

Bill O'Reilly

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

Bill O'Reilly

The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country, the people who want to change America fundamentally and every way, why this is the lead issue. The L.A. Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe. These people are going, 'Oh, my God, what are you doing? How can you not see the civil rights aspect of this?'

Truckers have contributed from virtually every state in the country with the exception of Hawaii.

Trimble County is a team we can play with. If we play hard, get after them and make some shots, we can be right there with them.

Treasuries are a safe haven and obviously a place where oil producing countries could place money.

Jamie McMurray

Yeah, you somewhat hoped that things would get worked out, but I wasn't counting on it.

You know Bernie is going to come out after us. Those Stoddard County team like to play us and they know its Homecoming night, so we can't hang our heads about this one, we've got to get ready to play tomorrow night (tonight).

Brian Cashman

When I saw that Octavio had surgery I started counting the dates because I knew he was a free agent. I thought there might be something there.

Jim Haslett

We never had to do a silent count at home.

We never count ourselves out with as many times as we've come back in the third period.

Ludwig von Mises

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

Ludwig von Mises

The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn.... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression.... All nations can coexist peacefully.

Ludwig von Mises

A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy.

Ludwig von Mises

A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

Ludwig von Mises

Capitalists have the tendency to move toward those countries in which there is plenty of labor available and at which labor is reasonable. And by the fact that they bring capital into these countries, they bring about a trend toward higher wage rates.

Ludwig von Mises

The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises develop into "big business" was precisely their success in filling best the demand of the masses.

Ludwig von Mises

The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

Ludwig von Mises

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

Ludwig von Mises

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

While we had to count an error, I thought the team fought really hard and stayed the course tonight. Any time you compete, you want to win but tonight we had other goals as well and I think we helped ourselves a lot in meeting those.