Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.