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Economics QuotesFamous Economics quotes by popular authors such as Ronald Reagan, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexander Hamilton, Milton Friedman and others.
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[highlight-text]There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher
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[highlight-text]Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge
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[highlight-text]A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton
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[highlight-text]If all the economists were laid end to end they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists but too few capitalists.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman
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[highlight-text]An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter
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[highlight-text]A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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[highlight-text]There are no such things as limits to growth because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence imagination and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation?
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. And if it stops moving subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm
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[highlight-text]Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending on the objects of benevolence the money of their constituents.
James Madison
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[highlight-text]Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
Adam Smith
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[highlight-text]Our industries have expanded to such a point that they will burst their jackets if they cannot find a free outlet to the markets of the world. Our domestic markets no longer suffice. We need foreign markets.
Woodrow Wilson
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[highlight-text]We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American Dream that wealth is denied to no one that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.
Ronald Reagan
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[highlight-text]It 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 self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
Adam Smith
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[highlight-text]The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Adam Smith
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[highlight-text]The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safetly be trusted to no council and senate whatever and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Adam Smith