But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen 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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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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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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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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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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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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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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