The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves.

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