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

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

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.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.