The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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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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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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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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?
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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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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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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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