There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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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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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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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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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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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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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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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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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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