Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all

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

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong