In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.