If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

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.

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.