The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they are prosperous if the boom starts, and that deficits and indebtedness are merely signs of how prosperous they are.