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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the dev...  
A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with hi...  
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was...  
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.  
Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.  
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this...  
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan poli...  
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with b...  
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.   Government
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that the...  
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman ...  
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some va...   Humor
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular er...  
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written up...  
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one sh...  
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the ma...  
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension ...  
In economics, the majority is always wrong.  
In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need t...  
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than t...  
It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold p...  
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of ...  
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more pe...   Politics
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreem...  
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.  
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.  
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally importan...  
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source...  
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.  
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specializat...  
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.  
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do n...  
One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high gove...  
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what...  
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing betwe...  
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalat...  
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like u...  
Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I ret...  
Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.  
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifes...  
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values...  
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thi...  
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of eve...  
The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still...  
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost alwa...  
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York...  
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in...   Politics
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is ...  
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a mark...  
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no excep...  
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and los...  
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is w...  
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assaile...  
There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who ...  
Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so t...  
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opp...  
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the ri...  
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?  
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, alt...  
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspec...  
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though...