Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.

Monetary policy suffers from the unfortunate absence of any occult effect. It has long been clear that economic management...would be greatly facilitated if resort could occasionally be had to witchcraft.

All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

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

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.