Ideas shape the course of history.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

In the long run we are all dead.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.