People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.

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.

If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.