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Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.
The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock.
I'm no enthusiast for the Coase Theorem. I don't like it, but it's widely used.
No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.
I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity.
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.
If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.
I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
Yes, prices go up in health care. They have been doing so for 80 straight years.
Obviously, I haven't succeeded in defusing the political concerns about the Fed.
If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.
America under Trump has gone from being a world leader to an object of derision.
And where are you going to get these angels who are going to run society for us?
True # anarchism will be # capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.
Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigerias growth and development.
To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong.
I have more concerns about potential risks and vulnerabilities than most people.
Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.
The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic.
Refusing to deal with numbers rarely serves the interests of the least well-off.
Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions.
Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.
British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.
Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.
We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'
Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.
If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?
Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.
The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.
My concern is not that there are too many sweatshops, but that there are too few.
There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.