America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT.

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.