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Quote DB :: Authors :: GK Chesterton :: View Quote View Quote "Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists." - Copy to Clipboard   --  GK Chesterton Listed in: Economics Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.6  Rate Quote 5 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from GK Chesterton "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." "Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline." "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around." Top 5 quotes from Economics "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages." "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

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