The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

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

Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides

Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.