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.

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

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

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

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

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