128 Quotes by Bernard Baruch

America has never forgotten - and will never forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago. . . . How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit

No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him.

I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.

Never answer a critic, unless he's right.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.