Diligent As One Must Be In Learning,

Like All Predatory Or Parasitic Institutions, Its First Instinct Is That Of Self-preservation. All Its Enterprises Are Directed First Towards Preserving Its Own Life, And, Second, Towards Increasing Its Own Power And Enlarging The Scope Of Its Own Activity. For The Sake Of This It Will, And Regularly Does, Commit Any Crime Which Circumstances Make Expedient.

Useless Knowledge Can Be Made Directly Contributory To A Force Of Sound And Disinterested Public Opinion.

Americans Have A Strange Notion That The Ordinary Laws Of Economics Do Not Apply To Them. So Doubtless They Will Think They Are Prosperous If The Boom Starts, And That Deficits And Indebtedness Are Merely Signs Of How Prosperous They Are.

The Civilization Of A Country Consists In The Quality Of Life That Is Lived There, And This Quality Shows Plainest In The Things That People Choose To Talk About When They Talk Together, And In The Way They Choose To Talk About Them.

The Primary Reason For A Tariff Is That It Enables The Exploitation Of The Domestic Consumer By A Process Indistinguishable From Sheer Robbery.