It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.

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

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth.

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.