But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe 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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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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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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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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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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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 destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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