The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

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

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 great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.

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