economist Quotes
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The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Those who want to 'spread the wealth' almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?
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Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market – contrary to rhetoric.
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It’s immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. We should look at countries like Denmark and Sweden and Norway and look at what they’ve accomplished for their working people.
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There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.
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The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
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The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.