“ I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. ”

“ Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. ”

“ The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. ”

“ Socialism means slavery. ”

“ History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. ”

“ And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. ”

“ If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. ”

“ There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye. ”

“ Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. ”

“ Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ”