At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.