In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

I was in charge of price controls in World War II and had a ceiling on overall prices. Everybody who was subject to general maximum price regulation wanted an exception and went to Congress to persuade a Congressman, or a group of people on the Hill, that I was being a menace to their industry.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.

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.

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

War remains the decisive human failure.