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There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.
If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.
Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.
We should not cling to crude down to the last drop - we should leave oil before it leaves us.
There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.
The only way we are going to ameliorate pressing social needs is through public intervention.
People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.
As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms
If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.
Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street.
The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.
You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.
Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.
Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
It will be crucial the E.U. and the U.K. maintain the closest economic relationship possible.
There is no reason for women to trail behind men in social, economic, and political outcomes.
China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.
Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.
An expert must be BOLD if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom.
The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.
My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.
Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.
The Chinese are saving like mad, but they are not getting a very good return on their savings.
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.
We will watch very carefully what is happening in the economy and adjust policies appropriate.
I have a lot of respect for the Concord Coalition and have done work with them over the years.
Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.