Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

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

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

War remains the decisive human failure.