A Quote by Benjamin Graham

The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

Benjamin Graham

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Benjamin Graham
American - Economist
May 8, 1894 - September 21, 1976

That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay.

Ezra Taft Benson

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

Robert Breault

I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

Connie Willis

Thinking you've had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you've been run over by a bus. Trust me - you know when you've got depression.

Giles Andreae

The Panic of 1819 exerted a profound effect on American economic thought. As the first great financial depression, similar to a modern expansion-depression pattern, the panic heightened interest in economic problems, and particularly those problems related to the causes and cures of depressed conditions.

Murray Rothbard

I've always had a real fascination with Alice in Wonderland and really related to it in some way. And since I was little, people always nicknamed me Alice, even total strangers. I do know I'm always in Wonderland. And I'm definitely just as curious. I don't mind being amongst the mad people, I enjoy it.

Evan Rachel Wood

We need to get around a table, have a serious discussion about the holistic problems in our immigration system, and craft a common-sense solution.

Tony Cardenas

I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.

Peter Marino

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

Mel Giedroyc

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

Euripides

I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.

John Maynard Keynes

It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay

Andrew Simms

We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.

Michael Bloomberg

Poor decision making in government; the tragedy of short-term economic thinking; our national housing crisis: these are real 21st Century problems for our country. They are problems that can only be solved by genuinely fearless thinking about our natural environment.