Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.