The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

The more the state plans, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

Let those who will, write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

-- Paul Samuelson

I don't care who writes a nation's laws, or crafts its advanced treaties, if I can write its economics textbooks.

-- Paul Samuelson

Economics is the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

-- Alfred Marshall

Abandon the illusion of Great Japanism.

-- Tanzan Ishibashi

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

-- Milton Friedman

Socialism or barbarism!

-- Rosa Luxemburg