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.

Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

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

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.