The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.

It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution is Property. The problem before us is, how to restore Property so that it shall be, as it was not so long ago, a general institution.

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.

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

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.