He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

Ideas control the world.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.