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

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

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

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

The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.