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“Governments can err. Presidents do make mistakes, but… better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)US president, speech accepting re-nomination for a second presidential term, Philadelphia (27 June 1936)
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“ Japan took its success for granted. Now it does not really want to face, does not know how to face, the empty charade of subsidy and protection.”
Kenichi Ohmae (b. 1943) Japanese management consultant & theorist, Harvard Business Review (May – June 1995)
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“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”
Adam Smith (1723-90) British economist & philosopher, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
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“The administration (of a nation) must be entrusted to experts. We must not look upon these experts as grand presidents and ministers, but simply as our chauffeurs, as guards at the gate, as cooks, physicians, carpenters, or tailors.”
Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925) Chinese revolutionary leader, The Three Principles of the People (1924)
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“Trade and commerce, if they were not made of india-rubber, would never manage to bounce over obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) US writer, Resistance to Civil Government’ (1849)
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“There is an important role for government in future economic success. It has to be the provider of the long-tailed social investments that underlie private economic success in an era of manmade brainpower industries.”
Lester Thurow (1938) US economist & management theorist, Reclaiming Prosperity: A Blueprint for Progressive Economic Reform (1996)
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“You can’t expect a viable economy if the only object of government policy is to be re-elected every four years.”
Arnold Weinstock (1924-2002) British managing director of General Electric Company, Independent (20 December 1986)
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“It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.”
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) British philosopher, economist & jurist, Principles of Legislation (1789)
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“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer & critic, Everybody’s Political What’s What? (1944)
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“This would, at a stroke, reduce the rise in prices, increase production and reduce unemployment.”
Edward Heath (1919-2005) British prime minister, referring to a government policy intended to deal with United Kingdom economic problems, press release (June 1970)
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