“As you take leave of [your school], as you graduate into a new life of the mind, may each of you ask yourself this: What am I doing to increase the sum hope of the world? ... What am I doing to teach someone else what I have learned?” WorldMindMaySchoolAsksTeachIncreaseGraduatesI Have LearnedNew Life Author:Arthur F. Burns
“My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!” MaySeemsGovernmentActionPoliticalPoliticsEffortMankindTomorrowWindowGoldTragedyIncapableClosingConstructive Author:Arthur F. Burns
“We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.” KnowsFrontsBrutal Author:Arthur F. Burns