I will not be a party to debasing the currency. On refusing to pay more than a small tip on having his shoes polished, whilst on a visit to Africa. Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes. British politician and prime minister. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.
In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. Irish dramatist and critic. From now, the pound is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies.