The Ballot Is Stronger Than Bullets.

The Banker, Therefore, Is Not So Much Primarily A Middleman In The Commodity "purchasing Power" As A Producer Of This Commodity. However, Since All Reserve Funds And Savings Today Usually Flow To Him, And The Total Demand For Free Purchasing Power, Whether Existing Or To Be Created, Concentrates On Him, He Has Either Replaced Private Capitalists Or Become Their Agent; He Has Himself Become The Capitalist Par Excellence.

The Stock Exchange Is A Poor Substitute For The Holy Grail.

It Is Not True That Democracy Will Always Safeguard Freedom Of Conscience Better Than Autocracy. Witness The Most Famous Of All Trials. Pilate Was, From The Standpoint Of The Jews, Certainly The Representative Of Autocracy. Yet He Tried To Protect Freedom. And He Yielded To A Democracy.

The Very Foundation Of Private Property And Free Contracting Wears Away In A Nation In Which Its Most Vital, Most Concrete, Most Meaningful Types Of Private Property And Free Contracting Disappear From The Moral Horizon Of The People.

I Set Out To Become The Greatest Lover In Vienna, The Greatest Horseman In Austria, And The Greatest Economist In The World. Alas, For The Illusions Of Youth: As A Horseman, I Was Never Really First-rate.