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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There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full,...

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full,...

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There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which...

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

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

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Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable...

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against...

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against...

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In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority...

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Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has...

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that...

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that...

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

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Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then...

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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

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It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or...

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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

War remains the decisive human failure.

War remains the decisive human failure.

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

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

I want a six month vacation...Twice a year.

I want a six month vacation...Twice a year.

The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts...

The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts...