“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.”
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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.
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
