Economics

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages" Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

"The free market is the only mechanism that has ever been discovered for achieving participatory democracy" Milton Freidman

"Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson

"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." Mikhail Gorbachev

"Seaport" - Claude Lorrain, 1638