In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.