Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.