The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

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

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market Fraud," January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.