There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the time when capitalism really worked. Everywhere in the industrialized countries production increased. Unemployment was everywhere low. Prices were nearly stable. When production lagged and unemployment rose, governments intervened to take up the slack, as Keynes had urged.

Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.