Quotes about Economics

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Those who take the extreme positions in American political and economic life are always wrong.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.

It is the nature of a business community that it deals with the covert forms of power in economic life and to be insensible to the significance and the complexity of more overt forms of power, even as it is insensible to the motive of the lust for power as an element in human nature.