The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.