The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by...
In the United States though power corrupts the expectation of power...
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's...
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Liberalism is I think resurgent. One reason is that more and more people...
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral...
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market...
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties namely that the rich were...
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to...
We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in...
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the...
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of...
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is...
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary although...
Wealth in even the most improbable cases manages to convey the aspect of...
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.
As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
