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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.