As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.