“I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.”

“Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.”

“Americans had built themselves a world of speculative pipe dreams. That world was inhabited, not by people who had to be convinced, but by people who sought excuses for believing.”

“Men of conservative temperament have long suspected that one thing leads to another.”

“Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.”

“It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.”

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ”