The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.