Tom Stamper

“It is true that under the wages system the individual is not free to choose permanent unemployment. But no other imaginable social system could grant him a right to unlimited leisure. That man cannot avoid submitting to the disutility of labor is not an outgrowth of any social institution. It is an inescapable natural condition of human life and conduct.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: Scholar's Edition

“It's not that the customer is always right, it's that the customer is paying to be wrong.”
― Tom Stamper

“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.”
― Ronald Reagan

“It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition