A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

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.

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

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

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.