Famous quotes containing the words american and/or economist:
“The American people abhor a vacuum.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
“As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)