John James Cowperthwaite Short Quotes

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A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.

John James Cowperthwaite
An infant industry, if coddled, tends to remain an infant industry and never grows up or expands.

John James Cowperthwaite
One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.

John James Cowperthwaite
Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

John James Cowperthwaite
I am confident, however old-fashioned this may sound, that funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer with interest at the time in the future when we need them.

John James Cowperthwaite
I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

John James Cowperthwaite
Simply put, money comes here and stays here because it can go if it wants to go. Try to hedge it around with prohibitions, and it would go and we could not stop it; and no more would come.

John James Cowperthwaite
Revenue has increased in this way is in no small measure, I am convinced, due to our low tax policy which has helped to generate an economic expansion in the face of unfavourable circumstances

John James Cowperthwaite