Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.

Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.

If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.

There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.

I see nothing in the present situation that is either menacing or warrants pessimism.

Every man wants to connect his life with something he thinks eternal.

A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

May your soul revive, rekindle and rejoice.

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal

I have a fear of being boring.

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.