Men will not always die quietly.

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner responsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power.

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

They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to no intellectual standard, it is not safe, or calculated to preserve from the spoilers that degree of civilization which we have already attained.

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

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.