Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-02-26 Feb 26, 2024It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.~ Murray N. RothbardMoney, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonMoney is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty -- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.~ Remy de Gourmont Feb 23, 2024Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.~ David D. Friedman[T]he only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets ...~ Lysander SpoonerCapital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated. Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and ideas. They, too, will go where they’re welcome and stay where they are well treated.~ Walter Wriston Feb 22, 2024Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.~ Douglas CaseyTerrorism is the war of the poor. War is the terrorism of the rich.~ Leon UrisSome writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one ...~ Thomas Paine Feb 21, 2024An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of every American living west of the Mississippi. If this trend continues, America will gradually sink into the status of a Third World nation -- more unemployment, more shackles on production, more poverty.~ John HospersAs a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.~ John MillsWith the monetary system we have now, the careful saving of a lifetime can be wiped out in an eyeblink.~ Larry Parks Feb 20, 2024Never — and I mean never — blindly trust the statistics you read [or hear] about the economy.~ Don LuskinWe can't spend more than we have. ... This is no longer a matter of right versus left, liberal versus conservative, we can prove our conclusion on this by basic mathematics. The United States Federal Government from all sources, for all purposes, takes in $2.2 trillion a year. Keep that number in mind. $2.2 trillion a year. We have total unfunded liabilities of $65 trillion, $2.2 trillion in revenue, $65 trillion in total unfunded liabilities. That is more than 30 to 1 leverage. If the United States Federal Government were a bank regulated by itself, they would shut themselves down. We live in a nation where not long ago our United States Secretary of State [Hillary Clinton] was on rhetorical bended knee in communist China pleading with the Chinese to continue to buy our debt, because if they don’t buy our debt and other foreign sovereign wealth funds don’t buy our debt our beloved United States of America can’t pay its bills. The United States of America my friends is not a beggar nation.~ Gov. Tim PawlentyPoliticians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork.~ Harold Lowman Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print