Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone
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Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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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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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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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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