Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.

You almost had to expect this after yesterday's [Monday's] action. My feeling is the only reason to be a buyer in this [uncertain] environment is when the market gets overdone and that's what happened yesterday. But we're not out of the woods yet.

You can only see in someone else what you see in yourself.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason