So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

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

Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

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