Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

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

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.