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

Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

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

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.

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.

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