The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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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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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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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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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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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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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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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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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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