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

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

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

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.