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.

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

War remains the decisive human failure.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

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