economics Quotes

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.