There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. ... Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that Congress shall have power to coin money or regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Such appeal is perhaps quixotic.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.