56 Quotes by Charley Reese

Credibility, like virginity, can only be lost once and never recovered.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it’s bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Don’t live beyond your means. Don’t buy more than you can pay for. Don’t expect to get rich quick. And don’t confuse salesmen for friends or advisers.

There’s no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one’s liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute – not much to recommend them.

American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes to our door. Until then, it is merely someone elses problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won’t reach us.

A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation’s soul.

Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, ‘If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain’t going to solve it.’

Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn’t carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.