Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.

Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907, 1929 and 1987.In economies and politics, as in war, an astonishing number of people die, like the man on the railway crossing, defending their right of way. This is a poorly developed instinct in Switzerland. No country so firmly avows the principles of private enterprise but in few have the practical concessions to socialism been more numerous and varied.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.