The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.