Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.