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.

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

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

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.