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

I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

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

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.

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

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.