"In the early 1980s, I burned my Social……" — Mark Skousen
"In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system."
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48 Quotes by Mark Skousen
Mark Skousen has 48 quotes on this site.
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The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
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Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing…
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Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.
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In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit…
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the…
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You can judge a man by the books in his library.
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No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Donating money to a few of my favorite free-market organizations used to be a pleasant duty, but now I'm literally…
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Gold and Silver have always had value, never gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?
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One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing…
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Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if…
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In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or…
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More Burned Quotes
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The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
— Matsuo Basho
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The…
— Scott Adams
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
— Jo Brand
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I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
— Summer Altice
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Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated…
— Carl Sagan
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The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it…
— John Bunyan
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One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes…
— Thomas Reed
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Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be…
— Mary Alice
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They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But…
— Lydia M. Child
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping…
— Edward Conlon
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