Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

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

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.