If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
America is a lunatic asylum.
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
The what is so much more important than how.
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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