The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.

[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.

It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.