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.

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

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

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.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.