Modern-day Los Angeles is worse off in real life than it was portrayed in the dystopian future film “Blade Runner.”
Category: prosperity
You have to put in the work
No nation ever protested its way from poverty to prosperity or got there through rhetoric or bureaucracies.
Advances come from free men
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Source of affluence
Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
Formula for prosperity
[P]rosperity follows from the rule of law, respect for private property, and the other institutional mechanisms on which the market order rests.
Being successful in America
If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.
No time for political correctness
I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I’ve been challenged by so many people, and I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time, either. This country is in big trouble. We don’t win anymore. We lose to China. We lose to Mexico, both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody.
The power of the free market
The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. But there is also a constructive reason. The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Explaining poverty
Any serious look at the history of human beings over the millennia shows that the species began in poverty. It is not poverty, but prosperity, that needs explaining. Poverty is automatic, but prosperity requires many things – none of which is equally distributed around the world or even within a given society.
Productivity through freedom
Prosperity requires liberty: to be productive we must be free.