The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Only fools want to be great.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

… every nation which makes no forward progress sinks lower and lower, and must ultimately fall

Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets; they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

A nation that fails to take pride in its past achievements or to take inspiration therefrom, can never build up the present or plan for the future. A weak nation can never attain greatness.

If the present faulty system is more profitable to a financier than a more perfect system would be, and if that financier values his few remaining years of personal profits more highly than he would value the honour of making a contribution to the life of the world by helping to erect a better system, then there is no way of preventing a clash of interests. But it is fair to say to the selfish financial interests that, if their fight is waged to perpetuate a system just because it profits them, then their fight is already lost. Why should finance fear? The world will still be here. Men will do business with one another. There will be money and there will be need of masters of the mechanism of money. Nothing is going to depart but the knots and tangles. There will be some readjustments, of course. Banks will no longer be the masters of industry. They will be the servants of industry.

Only fools prefer the past!

A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.