It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Nor 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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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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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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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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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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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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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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In the long run we are all dead.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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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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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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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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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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