How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

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.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

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.

Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.