Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

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.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.