No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

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

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

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.