The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

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

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.