A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESNor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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