So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

I can live with the robber barons, but how do you live with these pathological radicals?

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.