One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.
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Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.John Galbraith
these are the days when men... seek the comfortable and the accepted when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence when originality is taken to be a mark of instability and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.
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The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.
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a much more concerned look at the problems of the weak economies, particularly the innocent people that are suffering there.
John Galbraith
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital he serves it by consuming its products
John Galbraith
Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity
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