The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.