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,…

Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

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What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for...

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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the...

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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is...

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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in...

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or...

If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or...

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them...

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous...

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a...

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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either...

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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the...

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We think about all of our tomorrows, but we dont know how many they are,...

Your imagination is your preview of lifes coming attractions.

Your imagination is your preview of lifes coming attractions.

In life, as in football, you wont go far unless you know where the goalposts...

In life, as in football, you wont go far unless you know where the goalposts...