How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.

Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.

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

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

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.