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.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

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

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

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

Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.