Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

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

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals