When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

The moderns do not realize modernity.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.