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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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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Currency Gold Government Time Trust
It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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Capital Investment National Production Wealth
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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Difficult Expectation Investment Scarce
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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Change Code Greatness Importance Moral Social Wealth
I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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Delusion Forget Goodness Suffering
I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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Believe Future Learning Myself
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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Desire Glory Love Nation Yourself
I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Conservatism Known Man Myself Past Present
Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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Convention Failure Teaching Wisdom World
I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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Advantage Greatness Impression Scarce Social Stock
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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Foolish Greatness Possible Progress
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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Better Government Important Individual Present Worst
One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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Confidence Enterprise Experience Knowledge Personal
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Economy Kind Liberty Man Politics Problem Society
There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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Capital Reason Scarcity
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Balance Bank Better Citizenship Man

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