After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy’s it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.
Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.
Life’s values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.
When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.
One boy’s a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.
At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.
Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
I don’t believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don’t take any chances at all.
God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.
Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?
The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people’s money.
A radical is one who speaks the truth.
Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.
The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead.