Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.