If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration. He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

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

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

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.