In the world of minor lunacy the behaviour of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

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

In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.