Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-01-30 Jan 30, 2024We can't constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks.~ Angela MerkelThe Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.~ Benito Mussolini...it was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World-Money powers triggered by the planned sudden shortage of call money in the New York Market.~ Curtis Dall Jan 29, 2024It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.~ Adam SmithThere are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.~ Albert Jay NockSuum cuique [To each his own, to each according to his merits.]~ Latin Proverb Jan 26, 2024We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.~ Adolf HitlerSocialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money.~ Margaret ThatcherA large number of people, certainly the majority of the political looter class, think the best way to deal with the rapidly deepening economic crisis is via 'stimulus packages' with money plucked off the magic money tree... which is to say, by trying to re-inflate the credit bubble that actually caused the crisis. This is a bit like treating alcoholics by urging them to buy more whiskey.~ Perry de Havilland Jan 25, 2024The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.~ PlutarchDemocracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.~ Karl MarxEvery government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.~ Ayn Rand Jan 24, 2024The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.~ Bill BonnerAnyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.~ Kenneth BouldingWhy is it when times get rough only the people have to look for ways to cut back? Why is this always just absolutely impossible for government?~ Neal Boortz Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print