No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.

Beaconsfield

Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

Benjamin Franklin

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

He who will not economize will have to agonize.

Confucius

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

De Montesquieu

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

Dennis Kucinich

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Disraeli, Benjamin

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.

Harry S. Truman

In the long-run, we are all dead.

John. M. Keynes

When the last river dries, the last tree disappears, the last fish dies, the white man will understand that money is something not to be eaten.

Kızılderili atasözü / An Indian Proverb

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man\'s need, but not every man\'s greed

Mahatma Gandhi

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Martin Luther King Jr

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there\'d be a shortage of sand.

Milton Friedman

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Milton Friedman

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

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Milton Friedman

Nobody spends somebody else\'s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else\'s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

Milton Friedman

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it.

Paul Krugman