Quotes from James Cook

Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

The government is worst which governs most.

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

Government is not competent enough to regulate.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

Living your life constructs your soul, not a few seconds of daily prayer.

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.