Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?

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.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.