Confiscations

“Confiscations of physical capital have likewise seldom produced any major or lasting enrichment of those who do the confiscating—whether these are Third World governments confiscating (‘nationalizing’) foreign investments or urban rioters looting stores in their...

Certainty

“When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others.” – Bertrand Russell

Advice

“Advice is like castor oil…easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.” – Josh Billings

Roots by the Stream

Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never...