If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp. - John Maynard Keynes

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

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

It is because particular individuals, fortunate in situation or in abilities, are able to take advantage of uncertainty and ignorance, and also because for the same reason big business is often a lottery, that great inequalities of wealth come about; and these same factors are also the cause of the Unemployment of Labour, or the disappointment of reasonable business expectations, and of the impairment of efficiency and production.