There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

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

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

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

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