When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.