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“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.”

Source: Mere Christianity

“The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.”

Moments Government Principles Economics

Author:Edmund Burke

“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics..... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved.”

Has Beens Done Moments Challenges Economics Remains All That Remains

Author:Tony Blair

“Star Wars film is breaking all previous box office records. (Why might we want to revisit those characters, that narrative, those jokes and tropes again, in this way, right now? I wonder what it will turn out to reveal about the economics and politics of this moment.)”

Way Want War Moments Character Might Film Turns Stars Wonder Records Right Now Office Jokes Economics Boxes Narrative Box Office Tropes

Author:Laura Mullen

“The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.”

Moments Political Economic Economics Fortune Graves Practicals Resurrection Businessman Romney Ripe Prudent Electorate

Author:Camille Paglia

“You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.”

People Philosophy Moments Political Given Wealth Economics

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father [John Kenneth Galbraith]. The leading economists of the Austrian school- including von Hayek and von Haberler - returned for the occasion. And so my father took a moment to reflect on the economic triumphs of the Austrian Republic since the war, which, he said, "would not have been possible without the contribution of these men." They nodded - briefly - until it dawned on them what he meant. They'd all left the country in the 1930s.”

“The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.”

People Moments Law Chance Economics

Book:Early Writings

Source: Early Writings