Quotes by : Niall Ferguson

The striking thing is that the transatlantic divergence in working patterns has coincided almost exactly....

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected.....

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are....

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of....

It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's....

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble....

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's)....

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx....