Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.