Bernard Baruch
I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.Collection: Father
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only by understanding and agreement fortified by sanctions. We must embrace international cooperation or international disintegration. 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 dignity. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.Collection: Lying
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state.Collection: Doe
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.Collection: Hate
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.Collection: Government
Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.Collection: Loss
A man can't retire his experience.Collection: Retirement
We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.Collection: Choices
There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.Collection: Health
You can't repeal human nature by an Act of Congress.Collection: Government
Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.Collection: Believe
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.Collection: Business
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of EnglandCollection: Wall
Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.Collection: War
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.Collection: Time
Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.Collection: Peace
Financial storm definitely passed.Collection: Storm