I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works and votes -generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay.

The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.