John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined, as once with women, to a single country.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. A Life in Our Times: Memoirs. Houghton Mifflin, 1981.
For variations on this theme see Stephen Decatur, Meyer London, John Jordan Crittendon and Carl Schurtz
In a House debate in 1923 on the Nordic or Latin discovery of America, Congressman Summers of Washington asked Italian-American Congressman La Guardia to yield to ask whether or not Christopher Columbus had come from "your country."
John Kenneth Galbraith OC, also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, diplomat, public official and intellectual. A leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, his books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective.
