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

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

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.

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

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