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.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.

So far as the colleges go, the side-shows have swallowed up the circus, and we don't know what is going on in the main tent: and I don't want to continue as ringmaster under those conditions.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

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