Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by an organized proletariat for sustenance without relation to the product of its labor; a demand which threatens the very existence of PROFIT (on the necessary presumption of which Capitalism reposes). The second, and immediately graver danger is that of a revolt for the confiscation of the means of production.

The grace of God is courtesy.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.