"O.K., Thursday's jobs report settles it. We're going to need a bigger stimulus."

-- Economist Paul Krugman of the New York Times (hat tip: Conservative Grapevine)

"One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists of establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary."

-- Ayn Rand, "Word Around the Net" Quote of the Day for 7/2/2009 (hat tip: Gerard)

"As a nation we are under the thumb of idiots. Not just indoctrinated, or wrong-thinking, or power-hungry, or manipulative, or even malevolent people. No, I mean real lowbrows, people who constantly fall for really stupid ideas."

-- James Lewis, writing in The American Thinker

"Simple men are often forced to admit and reverse their mistakes. Men of letters tend to compound theirs with more mistakes."

-- Morgan K. Freeberg

Cross-posted at House of Eratosthenes.