Economist

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

- Friedrich August von Hayek Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

- Henry Charles Carey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

- Henry Charles Carey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

- Jacques Delors Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

- Friedrich August von Hayek Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

- Joseph E. Stiglitz Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

- Henry Charles Carey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

- Friedrich List Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them.

- David Ricardo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

- Hjalmar Schacht Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

- Friedrich August von Hayek Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

- Milton Friedman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

- Hjalmar Schacht Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

- Jacques Delors Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

- Friedrich August von Hayek Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

- Jeffrey Sachs Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exits between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

- Friedrich List Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.

- David Ricardo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

- Friedrich August von Hayek Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

- Neale Donald Walsch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Wherever it is resisted, slaver dies away and freedom grows.

- Henry Charles Carey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

That's our race. That's our playoffs.

- Tim Salmon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

- Jacques Delors Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The real problem, which our contemporaries by and large do not see, is that Europe has been in historical decline since the First World War.

- Jacques Delors Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

- Frederic Bastiat Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes