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

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.

It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the State lie entirely in the conditions or chances under which the pursuit of happiness is carried on.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.