Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

Only foolish people are completely secure.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

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

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to satisfy them. But the case cannot stand if it is the process of satisfying wants that create the wants.