The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

No nice philosophical point has ever been so decisively resolved as this: that those who are not conceived do not miss the pleasure of consuming the goods they do not get born to enjoy.

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.