In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest.

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

As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery -- a bare living.

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.

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

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