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

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

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

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.

Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.