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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930Is Reality Optional? (1993), Social Deterioration
I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.
Hillary Clintonborn 1947
- Abortion
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Jesse Jackson1941–2026
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013
- Economics
The more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924), “Breaking into the Writing Game”
A man doesnt want a child he is a dead beat dad. A woman doesnt want a child she is pro choice.
?Unattributed
- Abortion
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894“Yoshida-Torajiro”, Familiar Studies of Men and Books, p. 175 (1902).
The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.
Harry Blackmun1908–1999Concurrence/Dissent in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989), at 538 and 560.
- Abortion
The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of NationsIn context
- Economics
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse Karr1808–1890
No woman has an abortion for fun.
Joan Smithborn 1953
- Abortion
Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
- Economics
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004
- Economics
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business (15 August 1986)
- Economics