“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”

“Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.”

“The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.”

“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.”

“According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion.”

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”