A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. While for the natural scientist the contrast between objective facts and subjective opinions is a simple one, the distinction cannot as readily be applied to the object of the social sciences. There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
Money is a singular thing.
It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. 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.