If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.

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.

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

Struck in the wet mire Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

When people see you on the screen, you become bigger than life.

Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.

I wanted to help women and their families.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.