Socialism means slavery.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record...

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Truth always prevails in the end,

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with...

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.