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.

The object of love is to serve, not to win

A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

There is no indispensable man.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.