Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESBy this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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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 introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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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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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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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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