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

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

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

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.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

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

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.