Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

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

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.

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.

If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration. He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

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