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~ Economics Quotes ~
« on: April 01, 2017, 10:25:55 PM »
Economics Quotes


Famous Economics quotes by popular authors such as Ronald Reagan, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexander Hamilton, Milton Friedman and others.




[highlight-text]There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Margaret Thatcher

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« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2017, 10:26:30 PM »
[highlight-text]Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Calvin Coolidge

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« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2017, 10:27:06 PM »
[highlight-text]A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

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« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2017, 10:27:42 PM »
[highlight-text]If all the economists were laid end to end they'd never reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

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« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2017, 10:28:14 PM »
[highlight-text]Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists but too few capitalists.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2017, 10:28:47 PM »
[highlight-text]Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

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« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2017, 10:29:18 PM »
[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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« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2017, 10:30:13 PM »
[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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« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2017, 10:31:07 PM »
[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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« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2017, 10:31:41 PM »
[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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« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2017, 10:32:18 PM »
[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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« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2017, 10:38:58 PM »
[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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« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2017, 10:39:32 PM »
[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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« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2017, 10:40:08 PM »
[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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« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2017, 10:40:41 PM »
[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