 By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. |
| Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated. |
| In the long run we are all dead. |
| It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still. |
| Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. |
| A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. |
| The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future. |
| 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. |
| The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. |
| There is no harm in being sometimes wrong- especially if one is promptly found out. |
| I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. |
| The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. |
| Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. |
| Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. |
| The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones. |
| Ideas shape the course of history. |
| Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. |
| The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. |
| The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. |
| 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. |
