Everybody works but the vacant lot

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve.

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

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.