Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.
Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.