Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Towns were the nursery of freedom.