Ideas shape the course of history.

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

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.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

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.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.