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.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

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.

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.

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.