Quotes About Economics

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government

Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.

Everything you heard about me is true. . . . I am not a free marketer. . . . I believe in the heavy hand of government.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.

Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

No government that is for the profiteers can also be for the people, and I am for the people, while the government is for the profiteers.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.