Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Human action is purposeful behavior.

Abandon the illusion of Great Japanism.

-- Born in Tokyo 1884. As editor of Toyo Keizai Shimp

Heaven does not create one person above or below another.

-- Born 1835

I shall run wild for six months to a year, but I have utterly no confidence for the second and third years.

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

子供には物を与えるな、苦労をさせよ

-- Nogi Maresuke

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

-- Joan Robinson