A Quote by Sargent Shriver

When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.

Sargent Shriver

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Sargent Shriver
American - Politician
November 9, 1915 - January 18, 2011

The cash register did more for human morality than the Congregational Church. It was a really powerful phenomenon to make an economic system work better, just as, in reverse, a system that can be easily defrauded ruins a civilization. A system that's very hard to defraud, like a cash register, helped the economic performance of a civilization by reducing vice, but very few people within economics talk about it in those terms.

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