In the long run we are all dead.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESOne blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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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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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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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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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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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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Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
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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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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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