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.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

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

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

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.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.