Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

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

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.