The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.