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Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were executed by those who think and feel wrongly.

John Maynard Keynes

Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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Currency Gold Government Time Trust
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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Acceptance Big Forget Ideas Old People Problem
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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Government Introduction Speculation Transaction
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Currency Existence Subtle Sure
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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Advance Experience Provision
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Bank Problem Wealth Yourself
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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Build Enterprise Improve Possession Sleep Thrift Wealth World
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
In the long run we are all dead.
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Death Philosophy Wasted Time
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Average Believe Discover Interest Opinion
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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Government Hide Mistake Money
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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Deep Difficult Effort Escape Ideas Inspirational Lying Old
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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Destruction Growth Investment Liquid World
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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Future Importance Money Present
But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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Design Dream Future Prosper Trust
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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Economics Nation Necessary Poverty Problem Struggle

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