Economy Quotes - Page 38

• Our Bill of Rights, the most precious part of our legal heritage, is under subtle and pervasive attacks... In the struggle between our world and Communism, the temptation to imitate totalitarian security methods must be resisted day by day... When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.

  Earl Warren

  Wisdom, Struggle, Rights

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• Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction of the press, the abolition of trial by jury, or the abridgment of any other privilege.

  Noah Webster

  Wisdom, People, Forever

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• The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.

  Noah Webster

  Wisdom, Real, Class

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• The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

  Noah Webster

  Wisdom, Men, Dollars

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.276

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• We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Wisdom, Politics, Welfare

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• Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

  Caspar Weinberger

  Wisdom, Book, Politics

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• The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Long, Development

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• Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

  James Wolfensohn

  Wisdom, Politics, Development

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• A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Civilization

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• The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.

  Henry Wriston

  Wisdom, Division, Politics

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• Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.

  Daniel Yankelovich

  Effort, Important, Politics

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• If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is power. I have been arguing that credit should be accepted as a human right. If we can come up with a system which allows everybody access to credit while ensuring excellent repayment - I can give you a guarantee that poverty will not last long.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Guarantees That, Long, Giving

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• If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour with capital through a universal credit system, we'll then have other kinds of actors on the economic scene different from what the existing capitalist world would allow us to bring out.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Different, Credit, Actors

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• The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor - by making rich the richer and poor the poorer.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Real, Essence, Two

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• I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

  Ben Bernanke

  Independent, Political, Essentials

  Ben Bernanke's Testimony Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, www.federalreserve.gov. November 15, 2005.

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• Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

  Ben Bernanke

  Growth, Employment, Financial

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• The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.

  Ben Bernanke

  Risk, Demand, Path

  Ben Bernanke's Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, www.federalreserve.gov. February 15, 2006.

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• I put those people in place. I trusted them. I had no idea they would do anything like this.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Ideas, People, Trusted

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• Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were going to be x-size company, and, oh, yeah, Jackson would be a good headquarters. We work here in Mississippi because we started here, and we are certainly happy here. Those of us working out of Jackson intend to continue working out of Jackson.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Years, Work Out, Size

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• I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.

  Christie Hefner

  Thinking, People, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

  Christie Hefner

  Attitude, Guy, Respect Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.

  Christie Hefner

  Running, Race, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.

  Christie Hefner

  Hate, Fighting, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

  Ezra Cornell

  Book, Tariffs, Interest

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• Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.

  Franklin Raines

  Thinking, Able, Pockets

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