But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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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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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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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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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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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.
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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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The Economic Problem, the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
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