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

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

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

The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

Everybody works but the vacant lot