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

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

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

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.