It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works and votes -generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay.

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

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

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