The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.

It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel - these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.

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