But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIf you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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By 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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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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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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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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