- “A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.”
- “Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.”
- “By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”
- “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
- “Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.”
- “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.”
- “I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”
- “I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”
- “Ideas shape the course of history.”
- “If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.”
- “In the long run we are all dead.”
- “It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.”
- “It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.”
- “Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.”
- “Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.”
- “Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”
- “Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.”
- “Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.”
- “The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”
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