We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.