Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

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.

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

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

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?