The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

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

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

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Your life is like a book you decide what to write on it or erase from it

God isn't here. God doesn't even know about this place

Magnify the father, why bother with something lesser?

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.