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

How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.

The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.