Great Throughts Treasury

"Since nothing is settled until it is settled right, no matter how unlimited power a person may have, unless they exercises it fairly and justly their actions will return to plague them."

"A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time."

"I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends."

"Despite my views about the value to society of greater publicity for the affairs of corporations, there was an occasion, near the close of 1910, when I was as secretive -- indeed as furtive -- as any conspirator. I do not feel it is any exaggeration to speak of our secret expedition to Jekyl Island as the occasion of the actual conception of what eventually became the Federal Reserve System... Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would be waste. If it were to be exposed publicly that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress."