Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.