“Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.” PeopleHumansStatesUnitedUnited StatesDisasterEnormousProportion Author:Anne McLellan
“Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.” CountryStatesInterestDangerClaimsProportionIntervening Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.” IfsStatesDoneJusticeDoubtHigherCourtFinalsProofSupremeNo DoubtProportionSupreme CourtInfallibleReversal Author:Robert H. Jackson
“Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on its military than do all other nations on earth put together, and military expenditures are not only the basis of the government's industrial policy; they also take up such a huge proportion of the budget that by many estimations, were it not for them, the United States would not run a deficit at all.” Has BeensWarStatesGovernmentRunningEarthTogetherNationsUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryPolicyHugeBasesRemainsDebtBudgetsProportionDeficitExpendituresEstimationBudget Deficit Author:David Graeber
“The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the consumption of the state itself, but because a great proportion of the consumption of individuals is gained by its will and example.” CountryStatesCharacterGovernmentIndividualInfluenceExampleProportionConsumption Book:History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch Source: History of Economic Theory: The Selected Writings of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and J.R. McCulloch