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“Economy is the method by which we prepare to-day to afford the improvements of to-morrow.” Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address
“The fact is that the Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.” Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
“The way out of this recession, the way to create jobs, is to grow the economy by encouraging investment in factories and equipment, and by speeding up tax relief so people have more money to spend.” George W. Bush, State of the Union Address
“The economy is in a depression, and the United States has become a fascist state where the government uses TV and giant screens in the neighborhoods to distract people from the fact that nobody has a job.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
“Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“There is no law of conservation which forces the growth of new centers of economic strength to be at the expense of existing centers.” Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
“It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical and efficient way possible.” Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War
“In the long run, managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“On the one hand, freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself. In the second place, economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of...” Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
“To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I've just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.” Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address
“But our strategy for peace with freedom must also be based on strength—economic strength and military strength.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“Economically, men and women almost form two castes; all things being equal, the former have better jobs, higher wages, and greater chances to succeed than their new female competitors; they occupy many more places in industry, in politics, and so...” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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