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.

• Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
• The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
• The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
• The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
• Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
• By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
• I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
• Ideas shape the course of history.
• A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
• Ideas shape the course of history.