There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

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.

There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.