There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

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.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

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.

-- Born 1886

Heaven does not create one person above or below another.

-- Born 1835

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

-- Ryōtarō Shiba

Follow heaven and forsake the self.

-- Natsume Sōseki

The benefit morality gives us is economy of time and effort. The damage it does is the complete paralysis of conscience.

-- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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

-- Seichō Matsumoto