Mark Thornton famous quotes

04-29-2025

The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes â€” saving.
-- Mark Thornton

#Class #People #Saving
The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level.
-- Mark Thornton

#Moving #Successful #Government
Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.
-- Mark Thornton

#Government #Screw Ups #Enough

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.
Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any it's social class
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Mark Thornton famous quotes

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