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

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

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

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

The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still.

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