“Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.” CountryHugeEconomicsFoundationOur CountryPlusAgricultureMinusBrezhnev Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.” LongQualityLibertyMoralTaughtEconomicsFoundationTaught Us Author:Margaret Thatcher
“For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused primarily on dismantling the top of the dominator pyramid (politics and economics) and left its foundations (domination in family, gender, and other intimate relations) in place.” ChildrenMatterHappensLeftIssuesMovementEconomicsRelationFoundationGenderFocusedIntimateProgressiveDominationPyramidsPolitics And EconomicsProgressive Movement Author:Riane Eisler
“One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients.” WellsSchoolEssentialsOfficeEconomicsFoundationInvestmentPatientLondonReformOutcomesLabourFundRescueCrownsJewelsCommonwealthHealth ServicesHealth Reform Author:David Miliband
“The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property.” MeanWishLibertyEconomicModernCivilizationEconomicsFoundationPropertyIncludingProductionsCriticizeOwnershipPrivate PropertyModern Civilization Book:The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism Source: The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism
“According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined. Compare this to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor one-third of their output - and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?” GivingDoeLibertyLordTaxesEconomicsThirdsFoundationSlaveAverageLibertarianCompareBudgetsClothingsLibertarianismHousingMedievalTransportationOutputPlightSerfs Author:Daniel J. Mitchell
“In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.” PeopleTurnsDecisionOpinionOughtEconomicsFoundationRationalInstructionEconomistSociologistsRational Decisions Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung.” WellsSawsFiguresSeriousIntellectualEthicsEconomicsClaimsFoundationProfoundUniversityLibertarianThinkerScholarCultBizarreLecturesGeometryEuroKimMasonsComicalOpticsKim Il SungVon Mises Author:Tom G. Palmer