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

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

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

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.