The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

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

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

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. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

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