People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for war. During the Depression very modest outlays for the unemployed seemed socially debilitating, economically unsound. Now expenditures many times greater for weapons and soldiers were perfectly safe. It's a difference that still persists.

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

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.