We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

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. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.

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

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

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.