The frontier of America is on the Rhine.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.