ETC.

1. "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endevors to live at the expense of everybody else."-- Frederic Bastiat

If you are interested in philosophical economics check out these writings of Frederic Bastiat:

Government

The Law

That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen

2. Some Additional Quotes:

  • Give me a one-handed economist (Harry Truman)

  • Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend (Tagore)

  • The information you have is not the information you want. The information you want is not the information you need. The information you need is not the information you can obtain. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay

  • If you treat your friends and enemies alike you will arouse distaste for your friendship and contempt for your enmity (Iban Hazm, 11th century Islamic Scholar)

  • If you want to make an enemy try and change him (Woodrow Wilson)

  • The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity (William Butler Yates)