Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

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