There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment would result in the demolition of society.

-- Karl Polanyi

Heaven does not create one person above or below another.

-- Fukuzawa Yukichi

The history of humanity is also a history of excavating hidden facts.

-- Seichō Matsumoto

The greatness of human beings lies in our ability to change ourselves through our own will.

-- Ryōtarō Shiba

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high... Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

-- Rabindranath Tagore

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

-- Henrik Ibsen