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.

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.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.