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.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.