The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.