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.

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

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.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

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

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