History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

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

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.

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.

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.