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

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

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.

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

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

If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.