Pastoral Resources

I don't like government, it's just that simple.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.

In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.