I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

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.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.

We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.

The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

The object of love is to serve, not to win