A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

All socialism involves slavery.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies.

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

Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.