Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal.

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people, from children up, worked fifteen and sixteen hours a day. They were poor because these overworked people soon wore out -- they became less and less valuable as workers. Therefore, they earned less and less and could buy less and less.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.