Once The Premise Is Accepted That Poverty

The Ideas Which Now Pass For Brilliant Innovations And Advances Are In Fact Mere Revivals Of Ancient Errors, And A Further Proof Of The Dictum That Those Who Are Ignorant Of The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It.

For Every Alleged Benefit That The Politicians Confer Upon Us, They Must Necessarily Deprive Us Of Something Else.

There Is A Strange Idea Aboard, Held By All Monetary Cranks, That Credit Is Something A Banker Gives To A Man. Credit, On The Contrary, Is Something A Man Already Has. He Has It, Perhaps, Because He Already Has Marketable Assets Of A Greater Cash Value Than The Loan For Which He Is Asking. Or He Has It Because His Character And Past Record Have Earned It. He Brings It Into The Bank With Him. That Is Why The Banker Makes Him The Loan.

There Are Men Regarded Today As Brilliant Economists, Who Deprecate Saving And Recommend Squandering On A National Scale As The Way Of Economic Salvation; And When Anyone Points To What The Consequences Of These Policies Will Be In The Long Run, They Reply Flippantly, As Might The Prodigal Son Of A Warning Father: 'in The Long Run We Are All Dead.' And Such Shallow Wisecracks Pass As Devastating Epigrams And The Ripest Wisdom.

Give Me The Clear Blue Sky Above My Head, And The Green Turf Beneath My Feet, A Winding Road Before Me, And A Three Hours' March To Dinner - And Then To Thinking!