History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

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

In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way.

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