Risk Aversion Equal

Famous quotes containing the words risk, aversion and/or equal:

“I saw the man my friend ... wants pardoned, Thomas Flinton. He is a bright, good-looking fellow.... Of his innocence all are confident. The governor strikes me as a man seeking popularity, who lacks the independence and manhood to do right at the risk of losing popularity. Afraid of what will be said. He is prejudiced against the Irish and Democrats.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“My aversion from music rests on political grounds.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

“Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)