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.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

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 problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.