The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

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

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would happen to a nation in which all individual activities were directed by government.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.