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

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control of income and prices. Otherwise the struggle for more consumption and more income to sustain it-a struggle that modern corporations, modern unions and modern democracy all facilitate and encourage-will drive up prices. Only heavy unemployment will then temper this upward thrust. Not many wish to confront the truth that the modern economy gives a choice only between inflation, unemployment, or controls.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.