So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.