Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions

Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other read more

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and read more

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.