The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

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

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.

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

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

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.