It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

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

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

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.