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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThere is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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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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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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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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