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

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

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

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

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

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

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.