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

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.

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

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment.

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.