I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.