The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.