William E. Simon Quotes

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• If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem that may appear…
• The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority…
• Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
• Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our…
• Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved…
• Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation,…
• I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.
• The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.
• The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.
• Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined the…
• Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
• The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the…
• Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
• Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
• The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

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