The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.

It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly.

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.

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

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.