Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).