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 fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

Socialism means slavery.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.