I put it to you: if you rob people of their ability to determine their own future, they will turn to violence.
- Nigel Farage - Topics: Government, Eurocrisis, Debt, Austerity.
This EU is the New Communism. It is Power without Limits.
- Nigel Farage - Topics: Eurocrisis.
The two enemies of the people are criminals and Government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
- Thomas Jefferson - Topics: Government.
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other. If government spending is financed by borrowing from the commercial banks, it means credit expansion and inflation.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Debt, Government, Monetary Policy, Tax.
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero.
- Voltaire - Topics: Fiat Currency.
Don't forget: bankers may not mature, but debt matures.
- Lloyd Blankfein - Topics: Banking System.
Price is what you pay, value is what you get.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Stock Market, Investing.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison - Topics: Opportunity.
Markets are irrational in the short term but not over the long term. They sometimes offer fire sale prices on the greatest companies in the world.
- Fred Wilson - Topics: Investing, Opportunity, Stock Market, Wall Street.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Wall Street, Investing.
Economic history is a long record of Government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Government.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
- Ronald Reagan - Topics: Tax, Government.
