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

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

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

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.