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I like, very much, nature. Since I'm always together with people, I like to retreat.
Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.
Often, when I became a consultant to a federal agency, that precipitated its demise.
There's no reason to think that markets always drive people to what's good for them.
Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.
Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.
We live in an ocean of words, but like a fish in water we are often not aware of it.
People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!
Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian.
Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.
If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.
No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.
There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%.
In the past, Federal Reserve chairmen have not generally gone directly to the public.
Tar sands are attractive, but like biofuels, they will never replace Middle East oil.
The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.
Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.
A U.K. vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
Japan's future prospects depend on ensuring fiscal sustainability over the long term.
President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.
Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.
I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.
Clearly the climate is changing, whether caused by CO2 emissions or some other cause.
You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.
Self-deception can be more comforting than self-knowledge. We like to fool ourselves.
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
Every free man has a right to the use of the press, so he has to the use of his arms.
The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.
The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery
The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.
Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.
Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.
All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.
Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus.
Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.