There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

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.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy