We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.