All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.