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.

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.

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.

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

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

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

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