Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.