Alan Guth (1947) American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
as quoted by [Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, 1988, 0-553-34614-8, 129]
“The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.”
2010s, 2013, Obamacare laid bare (2013)
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“There's no such thing as a free lunch.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) American economist, statistician, and writer
Also often misattributed to Robert A. Heinlein because both helped popularize the expression – Friedman with a book with that title. The phrase actually dates to at least the 1930s.
Misattributed
“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.”
Andrei Grechko (1903–1976) Soviet military commander
Quoted in "Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse" - Page 58 - by Stephen Kotkin - History - 2001
John Allen Paulos (1945) American mathematician
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 5, “Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society” (p. 147)
Russell Baker (1925–2019) writer and satirst from the United States
"Getting on with It" (p.103)
There's a Country in My Cellar (1990)
Alan Guth (1947) American theoretical physicist and cosmologist
Alan Guth and Paul Steinhardt, The inflationary universe, edited by [Paul Davies, The New Physics, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 0-521-43831-4, 54]
Paul Ormerod book The Death of Economics
Part II, Chapter 6, Unemployment and Inflation, p. 137
The Death of Economics (1994)
“Modern liberalism: a heartless steam engine.”
Samuel Wilberforce (1805–1873) Bishop in the Church of England
Quoted in Arthur Burns, "Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004