Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
Humour 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.
If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation for this would encourage reticence which goes wel...
I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you...
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
In economics the majority is always wrong.
In all modern depressions recessions or growth-correction as variously they are called we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs -...
The more underdeveloped the country the more overdeveloped the women.
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.