Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

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

Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.

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

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.