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

- John James Cowperthwaite

The fact that previous generations have handed down to us a substantial public heritage by way of roads, port, etc. almost completely free of debt, s…

- 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…

- John James Cowperthwaite

Official opposition to overall economic planning and planning controls has been characterized in a recent editorial as "Papa knows best." But it is p…

- John James Cowperthwaite

If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then …

- John James Cowperthwaite

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

- John James Cowperthwaite

I am afraid that I do not believe that any body of men can have enough knowledge of the past, the present and the future to establish "development pr…

- 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 expansio…

- John James Cowperthwaite

I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on the strength of its own…

- John James Cowperthwaite