Quotes about Economy

The principle of neighborhood at home always implies the principle of charity abroad. (pg. 260, The Idea of a Local Economy)

The problem is not just the exploitation of women by men. A greater problem is that women and men alike are consenting to an economy that exploits women and men and everything else.

A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking of it, it's in the way that it's spent.

[T]his country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.

...without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with — and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism.

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.

Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.