In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

I have seen the future, and it works.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.