For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

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

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

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

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

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