Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

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

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy compared with the economic interpretation of the complex and incompletely known facts of experience, and lead one a very little way towards establishing useful results.