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"If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't."
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"If roses were not special weeds would not envy them."

"The rupee becomes cheap [of less value] and is that why man becomes expensive [valuable] and when the rupee becomes expensive, man becomes cheap. At present, man has become cheap; he will become expensive again."

"The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance."

"An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert."

"I say money has no value, it's just the way you spend it."
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"The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world."


"There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did."


"Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold."


"Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government."


"To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware."


"It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws."


"This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic."
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