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.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

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

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

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

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.