No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.