The Ballot Is Stronger Than Bullets.

It Is Not True That Democracy Will Always Safeguard Freedom Of Conscience Better Than Autocracy. Witness The Most Famous Of All Trials. Pilate Was, From The Standpoint Of The Jews, Certainly The Representative Of Autocracy. Yet He Tried To Protect Freedom. And He Yielded To A Democracy.

The Metal Of Economic Theory Is In Marx's Pages Immersed In Such A Wealth Of Steaming Phrases As To Acquire A Temperature Not Naturally Its Own.

All We Can Thus Far Say About The Duration Of The Units Of [the Business Cycle] And Each Of [its] Two Phases Is That It Will Depend On The Nature Of The Particular Innovations That Carry A Cycle,... And The Financial Conditions And Habits Prevailing In The Business Community In Each Case.

It Is, After All, Only Common Sense To Realize That, But For The Fact That Economic Life Is A Process Of Incessant Internal Change, The Business Cycle, As We Know It, Would Not Exist.

It Is However Always Important To Remember That The Ability To See Things In Their Correct Perspective May Be, And Often Is, Divorced From The Ability To Reason Correctly And Vice Versa. That Is Why A Man May Be A Very Good Theorist And Yet Talk Absolute Nonsense.