The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of…

The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies …

The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

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.

The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.