American Elephants

“A Society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality of outcome nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.”
……………………………………………………………………………..Milton Friedman

“The very fact that economists sweat over statistics purporting to demonstrate economic inequality in America proves that there is, relatively speaking, not much of it.”
……………………………………………………………………………..Irving Kristol

“The historical uniqueness of Nazism should  not blind us to the fact that morally and  politically it is identical with Stalinism.”
.……………………………………………………………………………..Melvin Lasky

“Never was there a more outrageous or more unscrupulous or ill-informed advertising campaign than that by which the promoters for the American colonies brought settlers here. Brochures published in England in the seventeenth century, some even earlier, were full of hopeful overstatements, half-truths, and downright lies. Gold and silver, fountains of youth, plenty of fish, venison  without limit. How long might it have taken to settle this continent if there had not been such promotion. How has american civilization been shaped by the fact that there was a kind of natural selection here of those people who were willing to believe advertising.”
……………………………………………………………Hidden History:  Daniel Boorstin