“Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.”
“On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear in the human heart — and their solution also lies in the human heart.”
“The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.”
“What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is thatcapitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentiallyavailable to all countries. No underdeveloped country in theThird World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growthprocess later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powerscapable of blocking the development of a latecomer, providedthat country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.”
“In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.”
“Commercial agriculture can survive within pluralistic American society, as we know it - if the farm is rebuilt on some of the values with which it is popularly associated: conservation, independence, self-reliance, family, and community. To sustain itself, commercial agriculture will have to reorganize its social and economic structure as well as its technological base and production methods in a way that reinforces these values.”