If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

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