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Things run in this country in spite of the government, not because of it.

— Will Rogers



It is easy to be conspicuously "compassionate" if others are being forced to pay the cost.

— Murray Rothbard



The world’s problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

— Julian Simon



The inevitable scarcity of the factors of production, the uncertainty of future conditions for which production has to provide, and the necessity of picking out from the bewildering multitude of technological methods suitable for the attainment of ends already chosen those which obstruct as little as possible the attainment of other ends — i.e., those with which the cost of production is lowest. No allusion to these matters can be found in the writings of Marx and Engels. All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of scribbling, recording, and ciphering.

— Ludwig von Mises



Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

— Thomas Sowell



No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice...

— Frédéric Bastiat



Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

— Ludwig von Mises



I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

— Thomas Jefferson



There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

— Will Rogers



A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.

— Everett Dirksen