I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.

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.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

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.

The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.