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 man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

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.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

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

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?