With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

Supply creates its own demand.

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind.

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Bad men are full of repentance.

My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.

I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

Don't send a poet to London.

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended.

It sounded like you were having Bella for lunch, and we came to see if you would share.