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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they make them.

Style is effectiveness of assertion.