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

The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

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

I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years - the way the world thinks about economic problems.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.