It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.