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.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

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

In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.