Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.

I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money, and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

He moves fastest who moves alone.