For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.