What's left is a cultural economy where only the privileged can afford to create, and where only immediately profitable art survives.

We have pushed taxation of wealth to a point in Great Britain where in many cases the yield would be greater if the rate were less. The idea that prosperity can be wooed by chasing millionaires is one of the most common and most foolish of modern popular delusions.

The best way to insure against unemployment is to have no unemployment. ... Idlers at the top make idlers at the bottom.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Imperialism and economics clash as often as honesty and self-interest.