Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

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

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.