If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to society. The income reflects the high total utility of a livelihood to a person.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.