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“The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and maintenance from the capitalist state, he can still be a full citizen. He thinks he can have his cake and eat it too. He is mistaken. The great capitalists who procured these regulations from the politicians knew what they were at. They were catching their proletariat in a net, and now they hold it fast.”

Thinking Giving Mind Stills States Wisdom Politics Accepting Economy Citizens Politician Illusion Liberalism Cake Capitalist Regulation Mistaken Catching Maintenance Proletariat

Book:Essays of a Catholic

Source: Essays of a Catholic

“Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.”

World Giving Believe States Would Be Politics I Believe Economy Movement Socialism Impulse Liberalism Strongest Regulation Business World Lawlessness

Book:History as Literature and Other Essays

Source: History as Literature and Other Essays

“In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.”

Political Politics Regulation

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?'”

Kind Long Political Politics Term Quality Steps Bills Investment Reform Long Term Regulation Banking Machinery

Author:Barry Ritholtz