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Economics Quotes by Ralph Raico
- The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem…
- Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the means at the…
- The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.
- Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests…
- With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.
- Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated…
- As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to…
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- Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of… — Frederic Bastiat
- Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat
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- Often the masses are plundered and do not know it. — Frederic Bastiat
- I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run… — Glenn Beck
- I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as… — Ben Bernanke
- Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. — William Beveridge
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
- And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my… — Lewis Black
- Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. — Bertolt Brecht