Jim Powell Quotes & Sayings

I think I have changed," I said.
"I think changes have happened to you," said Kristin. "But that is not the same thing ... — Jim Powell

Although the United States, with its unit banking laws, had thousands of bank failures, Canada, which permitted branch banking, didn't have a single failure during the Great Depression. — Jim Powell

David Lawrence, founder of US News & World Report, warned, Confiscation of wealth may satisfy the vengeful in us. It may sooth a retaliatory spirit. But it is the path of national suicide ... There must always be the reward motive. To many people it is but another way to set goals of human ambition ... When government kills the opportunity to earn, it sounds the death knell of the opportunity to serve. — Jim Powell

[Justice George Sutherland said, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case] 'One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though he did so to avoid a term in jail. — Jim Powell

New Dealers always seemed to be comparing actual capitalism with ideal government. They judged capitalism by its apparent effects and government by its announced intentions — Jim Powell