Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. - John Maynard Keynes

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

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

By a continuing process of inflation, government 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. . . . As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.