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

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the State lie entirely in the conditions or chances under which the pursuit of happiness is carried on.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.