economics Quotes

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it's been proven that they were not exaggerating.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.