What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it.

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but the two are one, and the latter is accomplished when the former is done

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.