My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.