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There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

There is no business on a dead planet

There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because so much of a movie's economics are based on pre-existing actors or actresses.

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.

The things that get rewarded, get done

Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it doesn't trickle down.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.

Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

We believe responsible business can be profitable business

We have one asset, and that's people.

We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.