The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

so that it may grow fatter and

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

It is not enough to be delivered from sin; it is enough to be delivered to righteousness.

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

I live in Los Angeles and I like to do a lot of hiking. I live a very relaxed life.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

I am haunted by waters.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.