"No metal, as such, can measure value with precision or equity. This is what Money alone can effect; and if there were no question of policy in the matter, I should advocate a monetary system independent of metals."
"The money of a nation, instead of being a power by which a few capitalists may monopolize the greater part of the earnings of labor, ought to be a power which should distribute products to producers, according to their labor expended in the production."
"War is a frequent occurrence in great power politics. It is not the result of irrationality or miscalculation, but rather of the rational pursuit of self-interest in an anarchic world."
"In reading certain Economists, one might be led to think that the products of industry were not made for man, but that man was made for the products"