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

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

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

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

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.