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"Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy."
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"Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'."

"So far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness."

"We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export."

"An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor."

"You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes."

"This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it."
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"Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted."

"The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt."

"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society."

"Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen."
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