If the people are to be the final tribunal then they must vote for what is right rather than according to their own selfish interests, else we are treading the path of danger.

The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress.

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things which are moral are unlawful.

There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

Some of our problems can no more be solved correctly by majority opinion than can a problem in arithmetic and there are few problems that cannot be solved according to what is just and right without resort to popular opinion.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.