John Ramsay McCulloch quotes
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“Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.”
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“The principle of laissez-faire may be safely trusted to in some things but in many more it is wholly inapplicable; and to appeal to it on all occasions savors more of the policy of a parrot than of a statesman or a philosopher.”
-- John Ramsay McCullochSource : "The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain". Book by Roderick Floud, Volume 1. p. 363, 2014.
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“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.”
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“No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial channels.”
-- John Ramsay McCullochSource : John Ramsay McCulloch (1849). “The Principles of Political Economy: With Some Inquiries Respecting Their Application, and a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Science”, p.226, Edinburgh : A. and C. Black
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“Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.”
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Source : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.118, Delacorte Press
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“Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they’re stupid.”
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“Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.”
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“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
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