History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

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.

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.

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

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