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Quotes About Economics

Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.
~ Diana DeGette
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
~ Milton Friedman
Real freedom must include economic security.
~ Bernie Sanders
When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.
~ Thomas Sowell
The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.
~ Ludwig von Mises
If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema.
~ Janusz Korwin-Mikke
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.
~ Chester Bowles
I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.
~ Unknown
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
~ Milton Friedman
A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.
~ Orrin Woodward
The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.
~ Cameron Mackintosh
Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.
~ John Stossel
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
~ Adam Smith
America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
~ John Barrymore
Don't be happy you have many boyfriends because law of demand Says cheap commodity has high Demand.
~ Unknown
Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.
~ John Dos Passos
There is no such thing as a free lunch
~ Proverb
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
~ Herbert Spencer
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
~ Aneurin Bevan
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
~ Woody Allen
Sabe que usted es culpable de una de las crisis más importantes de mi vida? Preguntó ¿Económicamente? y todavía ríe. Contesté, No sentimental.
~ Mario Benedetti