Quote

The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

James Cook

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James Cook
Age: 50 †
Born: 1728
Born: November 7
Died: 1779
Died: January 1
Cartographer
Explorer
Naval Officer
Seafarer
Marton
Middlesbrough
Captain James Cook
Cook
James
Cook
Captain Cook
J. Cook
James Cooke
Reasonable
Sin
Nation
Nations
Outcome
Learn
Repeat
Repeats
Outcomes
Sins

More quotes by James Cook

Image
Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails.
James Cook
Image
The more welfare, the more crime.
James Cook
Image
You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
James Cook
Image
When wildlife damages agriculture we eliminate the wildlife. Rather we should eliminate agriculture when it damages wildlife.
James Cook
Image
Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.
James Cook
Image
Inequality promotes progress.
James Cook
Image
Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.
James Cook
Image
The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.
James Cook
Image
The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
James Cook
Image
Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.
James Cook
Image
Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.
James Cook
Image
Nobody heeds danger when they're making money.
James Cook
Image
Knaves will come and knaves will go.
James Cook
Image
To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
James Cook
Image
Everybody lives an epic.
James Cook
Image
The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.
James Cook
Image
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
James Cook
Image
Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.
James Cook
Image
Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.
James Cook
Image
It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.
James Cook