Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them, and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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