Who said “Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is…”?

“We are enjoying sluggish times and not enjoying them very much.”

“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.”

“Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.”

“So-called ''austerity,'' the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. ''Pull in your belt'' is a slogan closely related to ''gird up your loins,'' or the guns-butter metaphor.”

“In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.”

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

“Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.”

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

“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”

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

“The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”