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.

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

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.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

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

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

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