Economist Quotes

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.
The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.
The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
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