Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
Bernard BaruchSociety can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
Bernard BaruchSo efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.
Bernard Baruch