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

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

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

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

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

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.