Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

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

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.