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He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.
Daniel Webster1782–1852Speech on Hamilton (10 March 1831)
- Economics
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
George Orwell1903–1950Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge (4 December 1948), quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge: A Life (1980) by Ian Hunter
It’s impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. You can’t have capitalism without racism.
Malcolm X1925–1965May 29, 1964
- Economics
- Race
Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.
Fidel Castro1926–2016Speech (26 July 1991)
- Economics
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Speech at the People’s Forum in Troy, New York (March 3, 1912)
- Business
- Economics
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963“Words and Behaviour”, The Olive Tree (1936)
- Morality
Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.
Friedrich Engels1820–1895Principles of Communism (1847)
There really is no alternative.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Press Conference for American correspondents in London (25 June 1980), defending monetarist policy.
- Economics
We shall have to learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Conservative Party television broadcast “Winter of Discontent” (17 January 1979)
- Patriotism
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin1814–1876“The Red Association” (1870)
- Economics
- Freedom
Stalinism and fascism, in spite of a deep difference in social foundations, are symmetrical phenomena. In many of their features they show a deadly similarity.
Leon Trotsky1879–1940The Revolution Betrayed (1936), Ch. 11
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part II, 775.In context
- Economics
- Government
In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.
Adam Smith1723–1790The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 80.In context
- Economics
- Work
Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Tom Lehrer1928–2025On the awarding of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger, and Lê Ðức Thọ
- Humor
It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973On FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971)