Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

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

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.