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

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.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

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.

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

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

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.