“Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.”

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.