We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

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

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.