It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

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