Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.

The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.

We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was the central world figure in the two great disasters of this century - the Great Depression and World War II. By contrast, JFK came in relatively peaceful, agreeable times.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.