The manipulation of credit has been the most potent of all methods employed by financiers as a means of controlling commerce and fixing prices.We are all consumers and should all be producers.This credit is a tax upon humanity as if government bonds were issued and people were obliged to pay it.

When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.

The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.

It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by making the people of other countries help to feed and clothe us.

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.