Switzerland/economy

Famous quotes containing the words switzerland and/or economy:

“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

“Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)