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It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

A Journey Through Economic Time (1994)

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

The Age of Uncertainty (1977)

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

The Affluent Society (1958)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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