One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

General consultant to mankind.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.