It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.