Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.