By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case

Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.

It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion