“Abraham Lincoln was the child of 2 illiterates.”
“But his stepmother, whom his father married in desperation to help raise the children, saw Abraham was a bookish person and she helped him all the way long.”
“I’m going to donate a picture of that stepmother to a place because I admire what she accomplished in her life.”🙌🏻
“Imagine being responsible more than any other person for the life of Abraham Lincoln.”
- Charlie Munger. 2019.
“We must come to recognize that voluntary cooperation, through the market and in other ways, is a far better way to solve our problems than turning them over to the government.”
— Milton Friedman
“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
-C.S. Lewis
“The key insight of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it.”
— Milton Friedman
“A man who has read a thousand books is armed for life; a man who has read none is easy prey. The man who has read a thousand books has lived a thousand lives. He has seen cities he has never visited, spoken to men who died centuries ago, and walked in worlds that no longer exist. Reading does not merely inform him; it enlarges him. It stretches the boundaries of his own experience until he becomes something more than himself.”
-G. K. Chesterton
“Since wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty, you might think that the left would be as obsessed with the creation of wealth as they are with the redistribution of wealth. But you would be wrong.”
— Thomas Sowell