Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive a nuclear war.

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

From the spring of 1941, I controlled all prices in the United States. You could lower a price without my permission, but you couldn't raise a price without my permission or that of my staff.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.