Thomas E. Woods Jr. Quotes & Sayings

a society that hopes to foster both justice and prosperity needs to discourage wealth acquisition via the political means and encourage it through the economic means. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The lingering effects of war can inspire callousness even after the guns have fallen silent. Many of us have seen the notorious clip from 60 Minutes in which Madeleine Albright, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and soon to be U.S. Secretary of State, declared that the price of half a million dead children as a result of the sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s had been worth it. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

In the nineteenth century there was no such thing as retirement, — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

If the federal government is an addict, then the Federal Reserve System is its enabler. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange
all sponsored by the Church
provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

what remotely educated or even half-conscious living being could consider John McCain a fit candidate for anything? — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Ron Paul is crazy, the guardians of respectable opinion assured us. What they really meant was that Ron Paul defied traditional political categories and advanced positions outside the Clinton-to-Romney continuum. People whose minds have been formed in ideological prison camps for 12 years have learned to confine themselves within an approved range of possibilities. Tax me 35 percent or tax me 40 percent, but don't raise the possibility that taxation itself may be a moral issue rather than just a matter of numbers. Either bomb or starve that poor country, but don't tell me there might be a third option. The Fed should loosen or the Fed should tighten, but don't tell me our money supply doesn't need to be supervised by a central planner. As always, confine yourself to the three square inches of intellectual terrain the New York Times has graciously allotted to you. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Reagan has become the Right's Obama: a man whose every action is to be treated as ipso facto brilliant, perhaps even divinely inspired. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn't know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The idea of formulated 'rights ... comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson ... but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The dollar has lost over 95 percent of its value since the Fed was created. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Government departments are arranged hierarchically; those at the top are used to issuing orders and expect them to be carried out by their subordinates right down the line. Minow assumed that a cultural institution like television has a similar hierarchical structure, as if television executives could requisition more creative programming the way a bureaucrat orders new pencils or department stationery. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Marx set forth a classic statement of inherent class antagonism on the market — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Nisbet could find much to disturb a traditional conservative even in the rhetoric of Ronald Reagan: "President Reagan's deepest soul is not Republican-conservative but New Deal-Second World War Democrat. Thus his well noted preference for citing FDR and Kennedy as noble precedents for his actions rather than Coolidge, Hoover, or even Eisenhower. The word 'revolution' springs lightly from his lips, for anything from tax reform to narcotics prosecution. Reagan's passion for crusades, moral and military, is scarcely American-conservative. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

stock market as measured by the Dow did decrease 25% between 1969 and 1971 — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

[Isaiah] preached to the masses only in the sense that he preached publicly. Anyone who liked might listen; anyone who liked might pass by. He knew that the Remnant would listen; and knowing also that nothing was to be expected of the masses under any circumstances, he made no specific appeal to them, did not accommodate his message to their measure in any way, and did not care two straws whether they heeded it or not. As a modern publisher might put it, he was not worrying about circulation or about advertising. Hence, with all such obsessions quite out of the way, he was in a position to do his level best, without fear or favor, and answerable only to his august Boss. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Libertarianism is "cultish," say the sophisticates. Of course, there's nothing cultish at all about allegiance to the state, with its flags, its songs, its mass murders, its little children saluting and paying homage to pictures of their dear leaders on the wall, etc. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

No one forces you to buy a Twinkie. But governments do force you to fight in their wars and pay for their bailouts. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Was U.S. entry into World War I such an act of genius that criticizing it is necessarily perverse? — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

It is only with government help - in the form of subsidies, restrictions on potential rivals, and the like - that business can "exploit" the public in any meaningful sense. That — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

(Catholic) monks taught metallurgy, introduced new crops, copied ancient texts, preserved literacy, pioneered in technology, invented champagne, improved the European landscape, provided for wanderers of every stripe, and looked after the lost and shipwrecked. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The greatest gains against poverty in the United States occurred when government was least involved. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.