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“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spendingRead more

“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.” Sir Winston Churchill African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? PleaseRead more

“How should it happen that the individual should be without rights, but the combination of individuals should possess unlimited rights?” Auberon Herbert African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz The Republic XF-84H ‘Thunderscreech’ was an experimental turboprop aircraft derived from the F-84F Thunderstreak. Powered by a turbine engine that was mated to a supersonicRead more

“Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group to ‘society,’ to the tribe, the state, the nation and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means ofRead more

“Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.” Justice Robert H. Jackson African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz ThisRead more

“When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state …this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.” P. J. O’Rourke African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quizRead more

“There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are ‘just’ because the law makes them so.” Frederic Bastiat African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz Top Gun Pilot Jerauld Gentry standing inRead more

“The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.” Henry Steele CommagerRead more

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz The Goodyear Inflatoplane was an inflatable experimental aircraft made by the Goodyear Aircraft Company, a subsidiary of Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company, well known forRead more

“Creation comes before distribution or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.” Ayn Rand African Pilot’s aircraft of the week identification quiz No prizes, but can you identify this aircraft? Please send your answers to me: editor@africanpilot.co.za and I will publish the namesRead more