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

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

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it.

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?

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

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