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• 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… — Glenn Beck
• I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions,… — Ben Bernanke
• Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its… — 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.… — Lewis Black
• Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. — Bertolt Brecht
• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the… — Warren Buffett

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