It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, — but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

I'd rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.