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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.

John Maynard Keynes

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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Hands History Save Society True
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Gold Standard Truth
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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Criticism Foundation Inadequate Weight
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Currency Existence Subtle Sure
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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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Detection Man Mistake Reserve Secret
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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Aware Himself Investor Risk Run
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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Citizenship Important Inflation Process Secret
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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Economics Gift Order Special Study
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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Business Contribute Himself Man Society Tolerance
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Affair Death Guide
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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Easy Economist Ideas Politics Rule World
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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Believe Economy Intellectual Man Myself Practice Quite Slave
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
The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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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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Advance Experience Provision

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