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.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.