Quotes about Economics
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- William Henry Harrison
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
- Ronald Reagan
good. A society that gets marriage wrong will not remain free for long: the family is the training ground for the virtues that make free societies possible. Consider especially the necessity of trust in economic relationships.
- Scott Hahn
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
- Will Rogers
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
- Adrian Rogers
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
- Ronald Reagan
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
- Thomas Paine
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
- Barack Obama
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
- Bill Gates
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
- Ronald Reagan
As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
- Ezra Taft Benson