Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

History is the new poetry.