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

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

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

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

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.