3.2 · 23 votes · 147 reads
Their most read quotes
4.2 · 32 votes · 149 reads
Thought and Reason
In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.4.8 · 53 votes · 168 reads
Government and Politics
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.3.1 · 27 votes · 121 reads
Government and Politics
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.3.9 · 14 votes · 191 reads
Nature
More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.3.9 · 43 votes · 153 reads
Government and Politics
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.3.3 · 43 votes · 56 reads
Various
Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.4.6 · 10 votes · 130 reads
Virtues
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.4.3 · 5 votes · 144 reads
Government and Politics
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.4.7 · 22 votes · 20 reads
Government and Politics
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, t4.4 · 31 votes · 138 reads
Government and Politics
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.4.2 · 34 votes · 123 reads
Society
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.3.4 · 20 votes · 114 reads
Government and Politics
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt wi3.9 · 34 votes · 134 reads