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African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.
You cannot grow more hours in the day. However, you can make better use of those hours.
We’re in the midst of a boom in home-based businesses, and it shows no sign of slowing.
The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.
...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.
As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.
Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.
Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.
There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day.
We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.
Trump does magic. Maybe it will be black magic sometime, but he's an amazing phenomenon.
Data can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully.
When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.
I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other.
There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.
Russia is certainly no longer a free country. We are moving in the direction of Zimbabwe.
Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'
Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.
Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.
Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.
A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint.