Donald J. Boudreaux famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.
-- Donald J. Boudreaux

#Liberty #Bombers #Politician
When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.
-- Donald J. Boudreaux

#Mean #Government #Doe
To worry about differences in earned incomes simply because some persons earn more than other persons is to wallow in envy. And envy is, and ought to remain, a deadly sin rather than be fashioned into a livewire for energizing public policy.
-- Donald J. Boudreaux

#Differences #Envy #Worry
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing.
-- Donald J. Boudreaux

#Winning #People #Political
For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy, entrusting government with power that we would never entrust to our neighbors or other private citizens might seem sensible. To me, it's dangerous, unjustified, and unjustifiable.
-- Donald J. Boudreaux

#Government #Office #Political
Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.
-- Donald J. Boudreaux

#Political #Special #Groups
Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that are produced by statism vigorously pursued. Nothing remotely close.
-- Donald J. Boudreaux

#Atrocities #Facts #Genocide
So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.
-- Donald J. Boudreaux

#Fall #Average #Years

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty
It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.
I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.
You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.
With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.
Sometimes you need a B-2 bomber and sometimes you need your mother.
Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

Donald J. Boudreaux famous quotes

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