I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

Money has a language of its own.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Value is what you get.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.