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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2701/">Quotes by <em>Galbraith, John Kenneth</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility."

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"When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it."

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"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."

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"In economics the majority is always wrong."

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"In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability."

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"In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well."

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"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."

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"More die in the United States from too much food that from too little."

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"The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state."

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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."

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