If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

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.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.