Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

There are no do-overs in life.

Through the "Strength" of one and his simple existence, there will be a transformation affecting many because of just one life.

God is the source of life, honour and wealth.

The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.

We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.

I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.

A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.