Blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt t….

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster..

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the gene….

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top..

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man..

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes..

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor..

What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would happen to a nat….

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brut….

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge..

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over..

At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve ….

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt..

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act..

To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted ….

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it..

As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more a….

Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow, or a….

We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization,….

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural ri….

As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does it seem to be of ….