It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.
Everybody works but the vacant lot
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.
The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.