The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

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

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

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.