Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

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.

Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.