History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.

What we prepare for is what we shall get

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.

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.

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