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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

John Maynard Keynes

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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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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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 political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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One 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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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Men will not always die quietly.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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$John Maynard Keynes Quote - By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.$

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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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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