But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

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

No ethic is as ethical as the work ethic.

It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.

I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.