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“Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.”

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Book:Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

Source: Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text

“Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.”

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Book:The Politics

Source: The Politics

“The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.”

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Book:The Lessons of History

Source: The Lessons of History

“American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.”

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Author:Louis O. Kelso

“It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.”

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which had much better been left to another Government agency or the Congress to attain. The country could have had lower interest rates without sacrificing anything else.”

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Author:Wright Patman

“No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is in other developed nations. The murder rate with guns is ten times what it is in other developed nations. And there's nothing inevitable about it. It comes about because of decisions we make or fail to make. And it falls upon us to make it different.”

“We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.”

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Author:Bryan Stevenson

“Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.”