The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

[T]he State . . . gives idle capital the power of increase, and, through interest, rent, profit, and taxes, robs industrious labor of its products.

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.