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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the em...  
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average ...  
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secre...  
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men wil...  
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferen...  
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to...  
I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing bu...  
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, com...  
In the long run, we're all dead.  
It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than ov...  
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evi...  
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capita...  
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.  
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction l...  
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 car...  
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the curren...  
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back se...  
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands...  
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old one...  
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present...  
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark f...  
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts...