What we prepare for is what we shall get

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.