The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

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

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

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.

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

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.