In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

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