Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

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

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

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.

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.