A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism.

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.