Famous quotes containing the words economists and/or failed:
“I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)