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.

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.

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