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

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

The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly simultaneous promotion of Shenandoah and Blue Ridge was to stand as the pinnacle of new era finance. It is difficult not to marvel at the imagination which was implicit in this gargantuan insanity. If there must be madness something may be said for having it on a heroic scale.

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.